In recent weeks, pro-Kremlin newspapers have been speculating that Crimea might soon be "reunited" with mother Russia, solving the fleet issue. The best-selling Komsomolskaya Pravda even printed a map showing Europe in 2015. The Russian Federation had swallowed Crimea, together with eastern and central Ukraine. Ukraine still existed, but it was a small chunk of territory around the western town of Lviv.
I've already
posted on Crimea, but I also know that as the election nears the peninsula may get additional write ups on its links to Russia and possible Russian aggression.
The Observer article, where this excerpt comes from, shows one way the Kremlin is trying to create an atmosphere of fear.
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