61% of residents of the peninsula are in favour of broadening powers of Crimea as part of Ukraine. Only 19% o respondents want it to remain Russia’s.
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The online poll was organised by pro-Kremlin e-medium ‘Krymskaya Pravda’; its turnout being about 5,000 persons.
The editorial board said the website was attacked by hackers, called the voting results ‘a provocative act’ and deleted it.
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Vladimir Putin has recently explained why Russia annexed the peninsula giving an interview for the film “Crimea. The Road to Motherland”.
“I told all my colleagues – there were four of them – that we had to start working on the return of Crimea to Russia as the situation in Ukraine was evolving in such a way. Because we cannot leave this area and throw its residents to the [Ukrainian] nationalists”, the Russian leader said.
