Many ethnic Russians who lived in Crimea before the annexation considered themselves more Russian than even those in Moscow, voted for pro-Russian parties and in 2014 welcomed the takeover by Russia. But in the years since, Andrey Vasilyev says, they have come to see that Russia is not what they imagined and even to turn against it.
Crimea’s Russians who backed annexation now turning against Moscow, says report
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