The first edition of the series is devoted to Crimea, which Russian aggression against Ukraine was the first to put into wartime.
This is important for us considering the fact that more than twenty years ago, in 2003, our partner think tank "Nomos" was founded in Sevastopol. Since 2005, it has published the "Black Sea Security" journal. "Nomos" under the leadership of Serhiy Kulik became a center for the study of the Crimea and the Black Sea. The Center's experts warned in their researches about the threat of Russian aggression against Ukraine, which would begin with Crimea.
For ten years, the peninsula has been in timelessness caused by Russia's aggression against Ukraine. Crimea has been turned by the occupier into a military base to continue the war against Ukraine and Europe. Putin's regime returned the peninsula to the times of Stalinism. Repressions against the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians of the peninsula have become commonplace. Experts of the "Nomos" Center and members of the editorial board of the "Black Sea Security" journal, Dmytro Shtyblykov and Oleksiy Bessarabov, have been in Russian high-security colonies for the eighth year on trumped-up charges, but actually for their Ukrainian positioning.
The occupying power and local collaborators carried out and continue to carry out a change in the demographic composition of the population of the peninsula, its de-Ukrainization, total Russification. Crimea has been in international isolation for ten years. What happened and is happening in the occupied Crimea is in the research of Evgenia Horyunova, who has devoted her professional activities since 2014 to the deoccupation of her native peninsula.
The first monograph of the series is published by the Center in honor of our brothers Oleksiy Bessarabov, Dmytro Shtyblykov and Volodymyr Dudka.