SEVASTOPOL, Crimea—Crimea, promised Russian President Vladimir Putin, “will be a home to all the peoples living there.”
Yet 10 months since the Kremlin tore up the map of Europe and seized the strategic Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine, many of Crimea’s 2.2 million inhabitants face a future rife with uncertainty and present-day hardships far different from the instant prosperity they imagined that union with Russia would bring.
As of Jan. 1, Crimea is supposed to be fully integrated legally and administratively into the rest of the Russian Federation. But in many ways, it seems more like a distant island, linked to Russia …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
