It has been 18 months since "green men" from Russia took over the Crimean Peninsula, installing an alleged former gangster nicknamed Goblin to run it. How's that working out for people?
By all accounts most of Crimea's inhabitants are happy. They're happy not to be part of the war in eastern Ukraine, or of the unstable, semi-fascist Ukraine that they see portrayed on their Russian TV channels. Life may not be the economic nirvana they hoped for (tourism has dried up), but it's stable and the peninsula's ethnic-Russian majority are back in the Motherland.
For the minority, though — the Tatars, Ukrainian speakers and those who didn't want to trade corrupt, chaotic, but more or less democratic Ukraine for corrupt and undemocratic Russia — the move has been miserable.