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You're misleading. We're talking about Crimea here. Ethnic breakdown in Crimea:

58.2% Russians 27.5% Ukrainians Rest are mixed.

Crimean Tartars are a substantial group in Crimea as well, and they (for historical reasons) are very sceptical of the Russians.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crimean_Tatar_2001-num.svg

Updated figures:

58.32% Russians

24.32% Ukrainians

12.03% Tarters