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Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine (Dispatch Thirteen)

Residents of Crimea went to sleep in the Ukraine and woke up in Russia

Some people might say that two weeks isn't enough time to prepare for referendum to separating from the country that you've been a part of for the last 70 years. But that's not what a reported 95.5 percent of Crimeans think, according to the official vote count. VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky visits the polling stations in Simferopol, including predominantly Tartar areas where the pro-Russian fervor is seemingly absent.

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