'annexation' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you are speaking or writing about the addition of territory to a political entity. For example, "The Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014 sparked international condemnation."
The annexation of the 950 acres of the West Bank just a few months ago has outraged me more than anything else in my political life.
"Two Olympic victories, the hockey and Crimea," said Trifonova, referring to the Russian team's victories in the Winter Olympics and paralympics held in Sochi earlier this year, as well as in the recent ice hockey world championships, and the annexation by Moscow of the Crimea peninsula.
Some political commentators claim that the EU hasn't given Ukraine enough support in its conflict with Russia, that the EU response to the Russian occupation and annexation of Crimea was half-hearted.
Slovakia, whose Miroslav Lajčák was the only EU foreign minister besides Cyprus's to visit Moscow since the annexation of Crimea, said it expected to sign an oil-supply treaty with Russia this month that would expire in 2029.
The Night Wolves put on a huge show in Crimea after the annexation involving bike stunts and people dressed as Ukrainians marching in the form of a swastika.
Meanwhile, having declined an invitation to take part in a major commemoration ceremony to mark the end of the second world war, in protest at Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, Angela Merkel and a small diplomatic delegation will travel to Moscow for a deliberately low-key event on 10 May, where she and Putin will lay wreaths on the grave of the Unknown Soldier.
The Ukraine crisis might have left Vladimir Putin isolated on the international stage, but at home, his approval ratings have soared to record levels after the annexation of Crimea.
Putin has ridden with the club, which held an elaborate rally in Sevastopol last year to mark Russia's annexation of Crimea.
His U-turn follows considerable western pressure, in the wake of Russia's annexation of Crimea and its ongoing covert invasion of eastern Ukraine.
After the annexation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets, Anka fled again with her second husband – to arrive as a refugee, "happy and lucky, in Cardiff".
Keir Giles is an associate fellow on the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House The reasons behind the annexation of Crimea and the pressure now being applied to much of eastern Ukraine are many and varied, but the simple reality is that Russia has used force to militarily occupy a significant and strategic portion of a neighbouring sovereign state, and it is not going to stop there.
