Deal With It: Poklonskaya Says Kiev Should Get Used to Crimea’s Russian Identity

Deal With It: Poklonskaya Says Kiev Should Get Used to Crimea’s Russian Identity

On Thursday, Crimea marked the anniversary of the 2014 referendum which saw the peninsula break off from Ukraine and rejoin Russia. In an exclusive interview for Sputnik, Natalya Poklonskaya, the lawmaker who bravely served as Crimea’s prosecutor during the Crimean Spring, offered Kiev and Western officials some advice about Crimea’s status.