Zo erg leefde de aansluiting bij Rusland voor de komst van de russische militairen op de Krim
On 26 February, near the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea building, 4,000–5,000 Crimean Tatars and supporters of the Euromaidan-Crimea movement faced 600–700 supporters of pro-Russian organizations and the Russian Unity Party. Supreme Council Chairman Vladimir Konstantinov said that the Crimean parliament would not consider separation from Ukraine, and that earlier reports that parliament would hold a debate on the matter were provocations
Het stuk gaat volledig voorbij aan het feit dat het referendum er pas kwam nadat er in het lokale parlement achter gesloten deuren met groene mannetjes met AK-47's erbij over gestemd werd om onafhankelijk worden, daarna kwam het referendum dat op geen enkele manier onafhankelijk te verifieren was.
JA, 60% van de bewoners is etnisch Rus, maar dat zegt niet dat ze allemaal pro-aansluiting zouden stemmen. Bovendien bleven veel etnische oekrainers en tartaren thuis uit angst.
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Whilst the "little green men" were occupying the Crimean parliament building, the parliament held an emergency session.It voted to terminate the Crimean government, and replace Prime Minister Anatolii Mohyliov with Sergey Aksyonov. Aksyonov belonged to the Russian Unity party, which received 4% of the vote in the last election.The parliament also voted to hold a referendum on greater autonomy set for 25 May. The troops had cut all of the building's communications, and took MPs' phones as they entered. No independent journalists were allowed inside the building while the votes were taking place. it is impossible to find out whether all the 64 members of the 100-member legislature who were registered as present at when the two decisions were voted on or whether someone else used the plastic voting cards of some of them" because due to the armed occupation of parliament it was unclear how many MPs were present.
Joh, dit zal echt allemaal superdemocratisch gegaan zijn.

Donetsk People's Republic separatist Igor Girkin said in January 2015 that Crimean members of parliament were held at gunpoint, and were forced to support the annexation
Even over de betrouwbaarheid van Rusland
At a press conference on march 4, Russian president Vladimir Putin said that Russia had no plans to annex Crimea. Putin later acknowledged that he had ordered "work to bring Crimea back into Russia" as early as February
En dan het referendum zelf.
Official results reported about 95.5% of participating voters in Crimea (turnout was 83%) were in favour of seceding from Ukraine and joining Russia.The results of referendum were questioned; another report by Evgeny Bobrov, a member of the Russian President's Human Rights Council, suggested the official results were inflated and only 15% to 30% of Crimeans eligible to vote actually voted for the Russian option.
The means by which the referendum was conducted were widely criticised by foreign governments and in the Ukrainian and international press, with reports that anyone holding a Russian passport regardless of residency in Crimea was allowed to vote. OSCE refused to send observers to the referendum, stating that invitation should have come from an OSCE member state in question (i.e. Ukraine), rather than local authorities.Russia invited a group of observers from various European far-right political parties aligned with Putin, who stated the referendum was conducted in a free and fair manner
Nee, dat is indertijd allemaal heel netjes en betrouwbaar gegaan.