Crimea, which Moscow claims to have been hit by Ukraine's energy blockade, will start receiving power supply from Russia once the“electricity bridge” is completed.
His predecessor, Sarkozy, said that Crimea chose Russia and we cannot blame them, and that the interests of Americans and Europeans diverge when it comes to Russia.
At this point the strategy of Putin, was to pursue the annexation, in its entirety, as the Crimea became Russian territory, or in a more subtle, as in the eastern territories.
The Crimea returned to Russia after a referendum had been held there in March 2014, in which 96.77% of Crimean residents and 95.6% of Sevastopol voters voted for reunification with Russia.
Although Donald Trump continues to find the reunification of Crimea with Russia as illegal, Putin stressed that the Russian side has a different opinion and for Moscow the matter is closed.
North Korea has officially stated its position on this issue when voting in the UN and believes that the Crimea is an integral part of the Russian Federation.
Crimea succeeded in returning to Russia, where Crimea resided since the 1700s, but Putin, hoping to defuse the propaganda war that Washington was mounting against him did not accept the pleas from the other former Russian provinces.
Over the past 100 years of its existence, Crimea has belonged to the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Russia, but regardless of the territorial jurisdiction, the peninsula has always been one of the favorite holiday destinations for Russians.
Contrary to the reports of 135 international observers from 23 countries, the Western media in chorus has suggested without a shred of evidence that the elections were rigged and that Crimea was under Russian military occupation.
Ukraine's only military victory against Russia was at the battle of Konotop in 1659, but at the time Ukraine was allied with the mighty Khanate of Crimea, and, you may have noticed, Crimea is not on Ukraine's side this time around.
And they're very anxious because he's already taken Crimea, if anybody- probably now people have seen a map of Ukraine and have a sense that Crimea is this peninsula off the southern part of Ukraine.
Ukraine would still be a mess if realists had been in charge of U.S. foreign policy, but Crimea would still be part of Ukraine and the fighting that has taken place in eastern Ukraine since 2014 would probably not have occurred.
How will these lands be defended, while Russia moves hundreds of millions of its people to the east? The Crimea is Russia's main naval base, and the flooding Volga and Don rivers will provide an inlet to the flooded lands of western Russia.
There is then, to consider the intentions of Turkey, whose government had expressed its intention to consider the Syrian and Iraqi areas beyond its borders, as a sort of its relevance, comparing them to what they represent to Moscow, the Crimea and Ukraine's eastern territories.
Plan A for the Victoria Nuland putsch was probably to install, rapidly, a government in Kiev that would join NATO, thus formally setting the stage for the United States to take possession of Russia's indispensable Black Sea naval base at Sebastopol in Crimea.
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