“This was our common dream”: Vladimir Konstantinov - about the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine and the return of the peninsula to Russia. “Justifying this act on economic issues is completely stupid, because at that time there was a single country and the development of a particular region was carried out in a single field, republican affiliation had nothing to do with this,” he says.

‘They latently suspected that they were opening Pandora's box, but for some reason they really wanted to carry out this process, so they did everything behind the scenes’