Crimeans may rue the day they clamored to join Russia
The New York Times tells the story of South Ossetia, which broke away from Georgia in 2008 with the help of the Russian Federation. Residents there were enthusiastic about joining Russia, even as a protectorate state, but within a few years, realized that they had been neglected and abandoned by Vladimir Putin’s corrupt regime. Could the same fate befall Crimea, still legally part of Ukraine?