Re the Crimea and tomorrows dodgy referendum to re-unify the - TopicsExpress



          

Re the Crimea and tomorrows dodgy referendum to re-unify the Crimea with Russia, this article gives some interesting background. It appears that in 1954 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gifted the Crimea to the Ukraine, more or less on a whim, despite the Crimea having been part of Russia for three hundred years. npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/02/27/283481587/crimea-a-gift-to-ukraine-becomes-a-political-flash-point
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:17:47 +0000

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