There are no Russians in Russia
Crimea was home to Turkic-speaking Tatars when the Russian empire first annexed it in the 18th century.
The Soviet Union took over Crimea after the Tatars briefly regained independence as a Tatar republic for two centuries.
In 1944, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin deported nearly 200,000 Tatars, or about a third of Crimea's population, to Central Asia, 3,200 kilometres to the east.
Crimea was part of Russia until 1955, when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the unification of Moscow and Kyiv.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the peninsula became part of newly independent Ukraine.
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