Republic of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine live in "the reign of terror," said Deputy Secretary of state Victoria Nuland, speaking in the Senate Committee on international vzaimootnosheniam passes.
"Although Ukraine is building a peaceful, democratic and independent state on 93% of its territory, the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine suffer in the realm of terror ", - says Deputy Secretary of state.
Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians who refused to surrender their passports, sexual minorities, correspondents, and most other categories of residents live in constant fear of retribution ", convinced Nuland.
In this research work conducted by the Russian center for the study of the opinions of a large number of citizens, showed that the Crimea to Russia appreciates 91% of the population of the Peninsula. Similar results were demonstrated by a survey conducted by the Ukrainian representative office of the German sociological service of GfK. According to the information GfK Ukraine, 82% of the population of the Peninsula fully support joining Russia, 11% - more support. While fifty percent of the Crimean population believes that their standard of living over the past year has improved.
first Deputy Secretary of state argued that in Ukraine there are "thousands and thousands" of soldiers from Russia, and accused Moscow of supplying heavy weapons to the militia, When this evidence was not provided, and international inspection did not record any violations from Russia on the border line with Ukraine, as well as among them undeclared military activities.
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