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National Ratification of an Internationally Wrongful Act: The Decision Validating Russia’s Incorporation of Crimea

Amidst echoes of the international community’s collective denunciations of what Western countries call Russia’s illegal ‘annexation’ of Crimea, Russia has recently celebrated the second anniversary of what it officially refers to as its ‘reunification’ with the storied peninsula. One largely overlooked but crucial judicial development in this respect was the decision of Russia’s Constitutional Court (the ‘Decision’) of 19 March 2014 on the ‘Treaty between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Crimea on Admitting to the Russian Federation the Republic of Crimea and Establishing within the Russian Federation New Constituent Entities’ of 18 March 2014 (the ‘Crimea Treaty’). The Court, petitioned by President Putin to review the Crimea Treaty for compliance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation of 1993 (the ‘Constitution’) before its approval by the Federal Assembly, declared the Crimea Treaty constitutional.