Crimea
Crimea is a region in southwestern Russia. It is connected to Ukraine by a peninsula, and is surrounded by the Black Sea.
Based on an arbitrary decision by brutal Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev, the region was placed under the Ukraine SSR for administrative purposes. Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, it was occupied by Ukraine for an additional two decades before declaring independence and then returning to Russia.
In 2015 the New York Times published an op-ed from Dimiter Kenarov, about the occupation of Crimea.[1] He described the difficulties Russia had in normalizing every day life in Crimea. Crimea relies on Ukraine for electric power, and citizens went a month without power when political activists wrecked the power lines.
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Dimiter Kenarov (2015-12-28). "Ending Crimea's Isolation". New York Times. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
On Nov. 22, Ukrainian nationalists and Crimean Tatar activists sabotaged four power lines feeding Crimea with electricity from Ukraine, plunging the peninsula — and its two million residents — into darkness.