Rose,
YOU are a Ukrainian Partisan and American NeoConservative.
You are therefore entitled to all the derision you’ll receive here.
Russians! Russians Everywhere!
Actually Mariner, you are likely more pro-Putin than most Russians of today are - but they’re burnt out from their history and only the youth are putting up a fight now in the form of opposition protests.
Most Russians are happy to have Crimea, but a lot are tired of how far the lingering Ukrainian conflict has gone to split their families (many Russians have Ukrainian relatives), ruin their economy (Western sanctions + Russian counter sanctions), etc..
Certain nationalists are concerned about what they perceive to be the Islamization of Moscow due to Kremlin’s lose migration policies.