An agreement to perform this act was initiated to the Rada by Leonid Kravchuk, and required compensation as one of its three major conditions. For 10 points each:
[10m] Describe this action which was mandated in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which in return offered security guarantees to its newly independent signatories.
ANSWER: returning nuclear weapons to Russia [accept any one of Ukraine, Belarus or Kazakhstan returning nuclear weapons to Russia; accept nukes in place of nuclear weapons; prompt on weapons or missiles in place of “nuclear weapons”; prompt on returning nuclear weapons or equivalents with “to who?”]
[10h] Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan were all signatories to this 1992 document, which required the new states to take on the USSR’s obligations under START I.
ANSWER: Lisbon Protocol
[10e] The U.S. cited the Budapest Memorandum to condemn the 2014 Russia occupation of this southern region of Ukraine.
ANSWER: Crimea [or the Crimean Peninsula]
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