Will the Crimea secede from the Ukraine?

The peninsula is fractured. "I'm Russian, but I live in Ukraine," a phrase read in various posters and repeated by many protesters.

Even with the memory of the deportation ordered by Stalin in 1944, the Tatars are irreducible advocates the unity of Ukraine, a country that invited them to return to the motherland after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

On the other side of the barricade, many Russian-speakers want the Crimea return to great Russia, of which was part until 1954, when Nikita Khrushchev offered Ukraine the peninsula where the Kremlin has the basis of his Black Sea military fleet.

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