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To: EnderWiggin1970
Crimea is 80% ethnic Russian.

That is a blatant untruth!

When I visited there in 2001, it was about 40% ethnic Russian, 40% ethnic Ukrainian, and 20% Tatar.

But they were practically ALL Ukrainian citizens - and citizenship trumps ethnicity (otherwise, many parts of the U.S. could then be legitimately claimed by, e.g., Mexico or Somalia).

Regards,

39 posted on 04/24/2025 11:49:36 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek
Crimea is 80% ethnic Russian. That is a blatant untruth!
When I visited there in 2001, it was about 40% ethnic Russian, 40% ethnic Ukrainian, and 20% Tatar.

I guess you better fix all the news articles and reports then, because everything I've seen says 80%. Wikipedia actually says 82% Russian going by language and 2% Ukrainian, with 20% saying they were Ukrainian by ethnicity.

Ukrainians are just "frontier Russians" anyway, despite the mythology some of them have adopted.

73 posted on 04/24/2025 8:19:53 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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