A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 do not comply with the applicable international conventions, customary interna- tional law, and the principles of laws on citizenship. In fact, Russia has not only occupied a part of the territory of Ukraine, but also took control over the majority of the population of this territory, depriving it of the free- dom of choice. Such actions represent a terrible precedent of arbitrary determina- tion of man’s fate by an aggressive state. Such actions of the occupation authorities create serious legal issues; complicate the return of the Crimean peninsula under Ukraine’s control as it is much easier to declare the granting of citizenship to the na- tionals of another country than to overcome the consequences of the lawlessness. 4.5. Violation of the Right to the Freedom of Movement6 The right to the freedom of movement is the right to move freely throughout the territory of own country, as well as the right to choose a place of residence, the right to leave and freely return to own country. This right is an international standard and is protected by Article 2 of Protocol No.4 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and Article 12 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Article 49 of the Convention for the Protec- tion of Civilian Persons in Time of War of August 12, 1949 (IV Geneva Convention) prohibits, regardless of the motives, to carry out forced individual or mass displace- ment or deportation of civilians from the occupied territory both to the territory of the occupying state and to the territory of any other state, regardless of whether it is occupied or not. The violation of the right to the freedom of movement leads to breaking the social, economic, family, cultural and other relations between the people, entails informa- tion isolation of the peninsula, when the people are fully inU uenced by the Russian propaganda and cannot get hold of an alternative point of view on the events in Ukraine and the world. The creation of such a situation meets the interests of the occupying authorities and allows to instill a climate of fear and make the residents of the peninsula feel hopeless. The violation of the freedom of movement greatly increases a person’s vulnerability before the state, when it becomes clear that there is no place to escape to. The vio- 6 A more detailed study on the violation of the right to the freedom of movement under occupation can be found in the thematic review Crimea Without Rules// http://crimeahumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ Crimea_Beyond_Rules_RU._Issue_1.pdf 85