Talk:2014 Crimean status referendum

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@Mellk: You restored the following importance levels: WikiProject Politics mid, WikiProject Russia high, WikiProject Ukraine high, WikiProject International relations mid, WikiProject European history mid.

Politics covers all politics-related articles, Russia and Ukraine cover all aspects of the life the respective nations from sports to culture and from the early Middle Ages onwards. International relations covers the relations of some 200 countries, and European history dozens of countries during many, many centuries. This article is about a staged referendum that doesn't meet any of the international standards for democratic voting and is totally irrelevant according to international law. While the occupation and annexation of Crimea might meet those levels (I'm not sure regarding European history), I doubt that the subject of this article does. Rsk6400 (talk) 17:07, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]