A fugitive Crimean journalist in Kyiv tells how the peninsula yearns for Ukraine
16.08.2015 12:57
(Moscow time), Kyiv-Simferopol
Crimeans are becoming disillusioned with the Russian ownership of the peninsula. Alexander Yankovsky, a former Crimean journalist who had not been to the peninsula for more than a year, stated this on Radio Liberty.
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He assures that even those who previously voted for it in a referendum are critical of Russia: “If we visited Crimea in August 2015, we would be very surprised at the change in sentiment, we heard from local residents who were for Russia last year, now they say: “Under Ukraine, we lived freer and calmer,” Yankovsky said.
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