Posted on 12/17/2006 7:27:48 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
SIMFEROPOL, December 17 (Itar-Tass) - The results of the people’s referendum show that “the Crimea, a bastion of Slavic patriotism, stood out against planting anti-Russian doctrine in Ukraine”, says an appeal by the All-Crimean Non-Government Council which held the referendum on Saturday on the attitude of Crimean citizens to Ukraine’s membership of NATO.
The appeal was read out on Sunday at a mass rally in downtown Simferopol. “Crimean citizens have overpowered at the referendum the president who claims to be a democrat, but does not want to heed the voice of 900,000 residents of the Crimea and does not recognize the people’s will,” said at the rally chairman of the All-Crimean Non-Government Council and deputy to the Ukrainian parliament Leonid Grach.
In turn, representative of the United Social Democrats Party called on politicians in Kiev to regard the referendum result in the Crimea as a warning on such plebiscites in other regions in the country if they continue to oppose holding an All-Ukrainian referendum on NATO. Social Democrats collected 4.5 million signatures of Ukrainian citizens in support of such a referendum last autumn and winter, but the Ukrainian Central Election Commission did not respond to this collection of signatures.
As many as 897,000 people participated in the Crimean referendum, or 58.2 percent of the total population in the peninsula. As much as 98.7 percent of electors voted against Yushchenko’s course for drawing Ukraine into NATO, and only 1.08 percent backed the country’s president.
Lots of people have invaded Ukraine Crimea.
Did someone ask the Crimeans what they think about the Russians in Crimea?
And did someone ask the Ukrainians what they think about the Crimeans (Tartars that invaded Ukraine a thousand years ago).
This is Ukrainian real estate - plain and simple.
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A Brief History of Crimea:
9th -13th century Turkic tribes and Mongol Tatars enter the region.
14th -17th century Crimea forms its own Khanate as a part of Ottoman empire under Genghis Khan
1783 Russian Cossacks occupy Crimea under the orders of Katherine of Russia.
1854 - 1856 The Crimean War, lasting from 1854 to 1856, was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire and Sardinia. The majority of the conflict took place around the Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea. After a dispute with the Ottoman Empire over the guardianship of several holy towns in Palestine, Russia invaded Moldavia and Walachia, both vassals of the Ottoman Empire, resulting in a declaration of war by the Ottomans in late 1853. The Ottomans were joined by Britain and France on March 28, 1854, and by Sardinia in January 1855. Austria also threatened to enter the war on the Ottoman side, causing the Russians to withdraw from the occupied areas, which were subsequently occupied by the Austrians in August 1854. The following month, allied troops landed in the Crimea and besieged the city of Sevastopol. The city was finally captured in September 1855. In the same year, the Russians occupied the Turkish/Armenian city of Kars. After the occupation of Sevastopol and the accession of Alexander II peace negotiations began. The war ended with the Treaty of Paris (1856) and became famous for military and logistical incompetence. The scandalous treatment of wounded soldiers, which was covered by war media, prompted the work of Florence Nightingale, introducing modern nursing methods. Tolstoy was able to use his Crimean War experiences in his book "War and Peace" about the Russian/Napoleonic war and The Crimean War was also the first in which use was made of railways.
And it was one of the first wars to be documented by photography.
It will eventualy succeed from Ukraine. Anyhow, Ukraine was "awarded" with krimea by Nikkita Kruschchev in 1960es. It is Russian territory.
Some teritories are Russian, some Chechen and some Albanian :)
And all of them are created, awarded or cleansed by communists/Democrates...
"The original language, referred to as PIE (Proto Indo-European), probably developed between 5000-3000 BC in the "horse-country" north of the Black Sea, where the horse was domesticated."
Rus/Scythians/PIE's were there well before.
Or shall we blame it on Cain?
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