SOURCE: Voice of America
3-6-14
tags: Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, Nikita Khrushchev
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3-6-14
Khrushchev’s son: Giving Crimea back to Russia not an option
Breaking Newstags: Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, Nikita Khrushchev
— Crimea is a Ukrainian peninsula, home of Russia’s Black Sea fleet which allows Moscow to extend its military presence throughout the Mediterranean.
The majority of its population is ethnic Russian, a quarter is ethnic Ukrainian and about 12 percent are Crimean Tatars.For centuries, Crimea was part of Russia, until 1954 when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave the peninsula to Ukraine - at that time a Soviet republic.
Khrushchev’s son Sergei said the decision to give Crimea to Ukraine had to do with economics and agriculture - the building of a hydro-electric dam on the Dnieper River which would irrigate Ukraine’s southern regions, including Crimea....
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