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|colspan="3"|Poll conducted in Crimea by [[USAID]] and a [[NED]] front group just prior to the US-backed Maidan coup.<ref>https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pnaec705.pdf</ref>

|colspan="3"|Poll conducted in Crimea by [[USAID]] and a [[NED]] front group just prior to the US-backed Maidan coup.<ref>https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pnaec705.pdf</ref>

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The [[Crimean Peninsula]]—82% of whose households speak Russian, and only 2% mainly Ukrainian—held a plebiscite in March 2014 on whether or not they should join Russia, or remain under the new Ukrainian government. The Pro-Russia camp won with 95% of the vote. The UN General Assembly, led by the US, voted to ignore the referendum results on the grounds that it was contrary to Ukraine’s constitution. This same constitution had been set aside to oust Ukrainian [[President Yanukovych]] in the [[Western alliance|Western]]-backed [[Maidan coup]] a month earlier.<ref>https://fair.org/home/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/</ref>

The [[Crimean Peninsula]]—82% of whose households speak Russian, and only 2% mainly Ukrainian—held a plebiscite in March 2014 on whether or not they should join Russia, or remain under the foreign-backed Ukrainian regime. The Pro-Russia camp won with 95% of the vote. The UN General Assembly, led by the US, voted to ignore the referendum results on the grounds that it was contrary to Ukraine’s constitution. This same constitution had been set aside to oust Ukrainian [[President Yanukovych]] in the [[Western alliance|Western]]-backed [[Maidan coup]] a month earlier.<ref>https://fair.org/home/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/</ref>

==Further reading==

==Further reading==