[lentulusgracchus]

...rejection of Russia is anathema in places like the Crimea, that are overwhelmingly ethnic Russian in composition.

This is what demographic overrunning by an alien population gets you. As the name suggests, the Crimea used to be the home and possession of the Krim Tatars. Not many of them around any more .....

[cunning_fish]

>>>This is what demographic overrunning by an alien population gets you. As the name suggests, the Crimea used to be the home and possession of the Krim Tatars. Not many of them around any more ..... <<<

Bottomline is Crimea has much stronger ties to Russia than it is to Ukraine. With of without Tatars who are a historic Russian ethnicity too (some 95% of Tatars are living in different parts of Russia).