Krim-borna summerar två år i Ryssland. Det går bättre än vad jag trodde. Budgeten har ökat rejält på två år och nya jobb skapas. Sjukhusen ger patienterna mat. Löneutbetalningar och arbetsgivarens pensionsinbetalningar fungerar och så var det inte alltid förr. Det finns gatubelysning för första gången på 15 år. Jag vet inte om Ukraina-tiden var så dålig i alla städer. Kanske bara i några. Vi får veta att ett tyskt opinionsinstitut bekräftar att en stor majoritet stödjer anslutningen till Ryssland. Det finns också klagomål, förstås. Maten är för dyr, men man tror att problemet löses när den nya bron är på plats (transportkostnaderna minskar). Det klagas på vägarna. Det kommer att ta lång tid att reparera dem, men man har börjat. Krim bygger broar medan Ukraina bygger murar och gräver gränsdiken. Ukrainas ekonomi går ned och Krims går upp och det i sanktionstider.
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The two years, he added, "have seen huge changes in all areas of our lives. Even in terms of everyday life, people now perceive the years [as part of Ukraine] as distant history."
The motto of the new epoch, Aksyonov said, is one of "building bridges," in the form of the road bridge to the Kerch peninsula, which is slated to connect Crimea with Russia's Kerch peninsula in 2018, and the new energy bridge which recently restored electricity to Crimea.
For the official, the motto also means "building bridges with other countries" in the form of "people's diplomacy," including inviting politicians and businessmen from Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and other countries in order to break through the sanctions placed on Crimea by Western countries.
As for Crimea's residents, they have demonstrated again and again that that none of the difficulties they have been forced to endure as a result of the actions of Ukrainian, European and American politicians could shake their assurance that they made the right move in 2014.
Curious over whether Crimeans were really this stubborn, or whether it was all Russian propaganda, the Ukrainian office of the German market research firm GfK decided, in February, to carry out its own survey. The results were not pleasing (for them): they discovered that 82% of Crimeans 'fully supported' the decision to join Russia, with another 11% saying they were 'mostly supportive' of the move.
[...] in the economic sense too, Russian authorities have done a great deal to rehabilitate the peninsula, which had suffered decades of economic neglect after the collapse of the Soviet Union due to Ukrainian mismanagement.
"If we are talking about the economic component, there are some serious results. The republic's budget in 2015 was more than 1.7 times what it was in 2013." At the same, she noted, the global economic crisis, sanctions and difficulties in transporting goods to and from mainland Russia have not stopped the mining sector, manufacturing and the food industry from growing (by 12%, 15% and 36%, respectively).
"I'm a cook in a café, and my salary arrives on my bank card – deductions are being made for retirement. Before, we didn't have this; I worked the same as I do now, but didn't receive my pay regularly. Sometimes it was divided into four parts, and sometimes it would not come at all for two months at a time."
New jobs are appearing, industry has been awakened.
Her business partner Anna added that a definite plus is the appearance of free medical services – the possibility to get care without paying, and the fact that hospitals have begun the basic service of feeding patients.
At the same time, Lyennara rejected any claims that Crimean Tatars' rights were being violated, at least as far as her family was concerned. "In my family I have not felt it, and I have a big family, with four brothers and three sisters; our grandmother has 25 grandchildren."
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20160316/1036398490/crimea-referendum-second-anniversary.html
