Shaded by cypress trees on Crimea’s Black Sea shore, a group of locals watch as folk singers in tall headdresses boom out a patriotic song about Russia with the lyrics: “I have no other motherland.”
A picture taken on September 10, 2016 in the main Crimean city of Simferopol shows people walking next to an election billboard for the United Russia party with a portrait of Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov.Two-and-a-half years after Moscow annexed the strategic peninsula from Ukraine, residents are gearing up to vote Sunday in their first polls to elect deputies to Russia’s national parliament. The ballot in Crimea …read more
Source: Malaya Business Insight
