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In February 2014, similar speeches and military maneuvers provided cover for Crimean volunteer militias to seize the peninsula, then still controlled by Ukraine, only to reveal they were in fact Russian special forces launching a military occupation.

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Foremost among these , the Panel said, are the issues of Palestine, Kashmir and the Korean Peninsula .

Her country had granted broad administrative and territorial autonomy to Crimea, but that had not put an end to the demands of certain groups, in Crimea and outside Ukraine, which invoked the right to independence of a so called quot Crimean people quot .

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The Crimean War, no doubt.

I conquered the Crimea. That was no illusion.

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What is Mr. Putin planning in Crimea?

But I was thinking... poor wretch that I am, of seizing some gold in Crimea...

In a strange historical twist, given the Crimean annexation, after the Japanese citizens native to the Northern Territories were killed or expelled, many Ukrainians were brought to the islands during the Soviet years, and still live there. If an independence referendum were to be held on Etorofu Island, where some 60 of the inhabitants have roots in Ukraine, I wonder whether Putin would accept the result as readily as he did the ballot in Crimea, undertaken at the barrel of a gun?

Khrushchev transferred the peninsula to Ukraine in 1954 as a gift to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the unification of Ukraine and Russia. At the time, the gesture was largely symbolic, as Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and few could envisage an independent Ukraine.

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I was by your side in Poland, France, Crimea.

56. The most difficult challenge facing Ukraine was the return of a large number of refugees to their native Crimea since the beginning of the decade to date, 250,000 Tartars and 12,000 members of other ethnic groups had returned to Crimea.

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One priority of his country's migration policy was the return of Crimean Tatars.

Miriam.

Miriam!

Miriam.

Miriam?

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Mikolo, Dmitre, let's go!

Hey, Miriam!

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However, separatist pressures, while diminished, continue to exist in Crimea. Given Crimea's historic ties to Russia and its majority ethnic Russian population, many Ukrainian officials fear that Russia could try to foment separatist movements in Crimea as a means of putting pressure on Ukraine to curb its ties to the West.

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And now you're going back to Crete?

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You can see here, there's the Yucatan Peninsula, if you recognize Cozumel off the east coast there.

MADRID Even Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union with scarcely a shot fired, has proclaimed his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin s annexation of Crimea. The people of Crimea, he says, have corrected a historic Soviet error.

UNESCO plays a role in the development of cultural activities of returnees in the Crimea (Ukraine).

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According to the Office of Insular Affairs, the population of the Virgin Islands in 2004 stood at 108,775, with 4,252 people living in St. John and the rest almost equally divided between St. Thomas and St. Croix.

Ukraine the great prize in Russia s bid to recapture its former sphere of influence is also deeply anxious. It fears that Russia will encourage separatist tendencies in Crimea, where the ethnic Russian population forms a majority.

Ms. Vrcan (Croatia) said that, with its coastal area containing over 1,000 islands, Croatia was strongly aware of the special environmental and developmental challenges faced by small island developing States and supported the Mauritius Declaration and Strategy.