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    Months After Russian Annexation, Hopes Start to Dim in Crimea - The New York Times
    ▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/world/europe/power-outage-forces-crimeans-to-reconsider-their-enthusiasm-for-secession.h

    When residents in this typical Soviet factory town voted enthusiastically to secede from Ukraine and to become Russians, they thought the chaos and corruption that made daily life a struggle were a thing of the past.

    Now that many of them are being forced to cook and boil drinking water on open fires, however, they are beginning to reconsider.

    There has been no steady electricity supply in this hard-hit town since Nov. 22, when protesters in Ukraine blew up the lines still feeding Crimea with most of its electric power. The bigger towns and cities are only marginally better off.

    11ème jour sans électricité en Crimée…

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      Russia blames Ukraine of ’sabotage’ over Crimean power shortages Vatican Radio
      ▻http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/12/01/russia_blames_ukraine_of_sabotage_over_crimea/1191307

      Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has accused Ukraine of “sabotage” as damage to key electricity pylons left some two million people on the Crimean peninsula without power for more than a week. The loss of electricity to Crimea has sparked a reduction of coal supplies to Ukraine from Russia and from the pro-Russian rebel-held eastern Ukraine. Despite the tensions, a prisoner exchange was reported Tuesday between pro-Russian rebels and Kiev.
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      Ukraine says Tatar activists will need to allow repairs before power supplies can be resumed.
      However speaking through an interpreter an activist says this can only happen if Russia meets at least some of their demands. “As soon as at least one political prisoner is released than we give permission to repair one pylon and to run electricity as well,” the masked man said.
      In response, coal supplies to Ukraine have been reduced from Russia and from the pro-Russian rebel-held eastern Ukraine.

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