I was going to mention this book but I figured nobody heard of it. Want to hear about a funny/spooky coincidence? The Putin stooge who has just been put in charge of Crimea and is inviting in the Russians in named... Aksyonov! No, not the same guy just same name.
How is that for an Illuminati conspiracy!
Hmmmm ...
Sergey Aksyonov, the Crimean leader, was actually born in Moldova, so he's a Russian nationalist born in Moldova who lives in the Ukraine. And his party is called Russian Unity. Again, pretty strange for a party in one country to take another country's name in its own. And they have 3 seats out of 100 in the Crimean Parliament.
Vasily Aksyonov went back to the Old World and died in Moscow in 2009. His return to Russia would have been hard to foresee 30 years ago, but I'm reminded that his novel did end with a Soviet invasion of Crimea, so he did get that part right. Looking back, though, (if I remember correctly) Aksyonov's Russian Civil War story of how his fictional Crimea became independent was the best thing in the book.