Putin Looks For "Someone To Hang" In Case Road To Crimea Bridge Isn’t Finished On Time
By Tyler Durden
Friday was the second anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
To mark the event, Vladimir Putin paid a visit to the island of Tuzla, where he checked in on a construction project aimed at bridging the Black Sea peninsula with the Russian mainland. The bridge, which is expected to cost somewhere in the neighborhood of €3 billion, will be the first direct link between Crimea and Russia and will span about 12 miles across the Kerch Strait.
Putin called the effort “a historical mission,” that will boost Crimea’s economic growth. It’s expected to be completed by December of 2018. Also in the works is an undersea power cable meant to help prevent the types of blackouts that have beset Crimea due to its dependence on Kiev for power.
“State-sponsored concerts and public festivities took place across Russia to commemorate the March 2014 takeover that Moscow insists followed a referendum in which Crimea residents voted overwhelmingly to swap countries,”
(“Are you him?”)
“The president’s comments were figurative,” the Kremlin later said, dryly.
The US and the West have said that Putin will eventually have to leave Crimea and return the peninsula to Ukraine. Somehow, we think all of the above seems to suggest that Moscow isn’t about to be “returning” anything to anyone anytime soon.
Meanwhile, the fate of Ukraine still “hangs” in the balance, so to speak.
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