By mid-March 2014, Russian “little green men” took full control of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. And on March 18, President Vladimir Putin made a jubilant address to the Russian Federation Council (upper chamber of Parliament) on the “reunification” with Crimea, asserting, “In people’s hearts and minds, Crimea has always been an inseparable part of Russia” (Kremlin.ru, March 18, 2014).