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snooper2

(30,151 posts)
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 10:58 AM Mar 2014

Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine (Dispatch Thirteen) (THE REFERENDUM VOTE)

(The "made in russia" edition)


Props to Simon-




Some people might say that two weeks isn't enough time to prepare for referendum to separating from the country that you've been a part of for the last 70 years. But that's not what a reported 95.5 percent of Crimeans think, according to the official vote count. VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky visits the polling stations in Simferopol, including predominantly Tartar areas where the pro-Russian fervor is seemingly absent.



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