[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

It's more like the relationship between England and the United States, except if the United States was dominated by Mongols and had a long tradition of oriental despotism (Kiev had one of the earliest constitutions). When Moscow was still wilderness, Kiev already had its own civilization. The King who was baptized in Crimea was a Kievan King, not a Muscovite.

The only claim that Russia has over Crimea is a long history of conquest, occupation, colonization, rape and murder of whoever happened to be living there.

[hubel458]

quote ‘’huge importance for the Russian nation, just
as the Temple Mountain is for people of Jewish.....’’’

Well then he ought to be satisfied with that......

and get out of the rest of Ukraine.....

[Cossak]

In 1571 Crimean khan Girey raided Moscow, burned it, filled Moscow river with bodies of citizens. He seized 100 000 Russian people in neighborhood to sell them to Osmans. Slave trade was main source of profit for Crimean khans.