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| "View of Constantinople and the Bosphorus" (1856), by Ivan Konstantinovich Alvazovsky |
By all accounts, Russians cheered when they heard that their president had reclaimed Crimea from Ukraine. Sure, the little spit of land is strategically important, being the home of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, sure its population is 60 percent Russian (thanks in large part to Joseph Stalin:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140314-crimea-tatars-referendum-russia-muslim-ethnic-history-culture/), and sure, it's important for its agriculture and wine production (see
http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2014/03/half-league-onward.html and
http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2014/03/its-putins-port-now.html), but to Mother Russia and her people, it's so much more than that (story, video):
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26610276
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