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After the rhetoric surrounding Crimea died down, it turned out that the Crimeans themselves voted overwhelmingly to join Russia while Russia only acceded to their lawful demands. The Crimean Tatars—a significant minority—are particularly happy now that their language has become one of the three official ones, joining Russian and Ukrainian.
Al Jazeera is airing in these days a document where few Tatars speak out against the "annexation", mentioning some atrocities. It seems to me as a lip service of AJ to their owners in Doha - a compensation for their strong critics of Israel/Palestine conflict.

Crimea: Russia's Dark Secret
Killings and kidnappings are Russia’s tools to scare off Crimea’s Muslim Tatars whose resistance is seen as an obstacle to Russia’s regional ambitions.
https://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/epgschedule.html#