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Line 210: In the year following the annexation, armed men seized various Crimean businesses, including banks, hotels, shipyards, farms, gas stations, a bakery, a dairy, and Yalta Film Studio.<ref name=AP141202>{{cite news |url= http://bigstory.ap.org/article/166097f662ec4e6e899b14c12e9a0c58/change-leadership-crimea-means-property-grab |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20141203004052/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/166097f662ec4e6e899b14c12e9a0c58/change-leadership-crimea-means-property-grab |archivedate= 3 December 2014 |title= Change of leadership in Crimea means property grab |first= Laura |last= Mills |first2= John-Thor |last2= Dahlburg |agency= Associated Press |date= 2 December 2014 }}</ref><ref name=NYT150110>{{cite news |url= http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/world/seizing-assets-in-crimea-from-shipyard-to-film-studio.html |title= Seizing Assets in Crimea, From Shipyard to Film Studio |first= Neil |last= MacFarquhar |work= The New York Times |date= 10 January 2015 }}</ref><ref name=AFP150227>{{cite web |url= https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/under-russia-isolated-crimea-twilight-060215014.html |title=Under Russia, isolated Crimea is twilight zone for business |first= Maria |last= Antonova |agency= [[Agence France-Presse]] |publisher= Yahoo News |date= 27 February 2015 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20150301041453/https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/under-russia-isolated-crimea-twilight-060215014.html |archivedate= 1 March 2015 |deadurl= no }}</ref> [[File:Ukraine census 2001 Russian.svg|thumb|right|250px|Map denoting the subdivisions of Ukraine and the percentage of people that indicated [[Russian language in Ukraine|Russian]] as their native language in the latest local census. [[Sevastopol]] identifies itself as the highest at 90.6% followed immediately by Crimea at 77.0%.]] ===Crimean public opinion=== Crimea is populated by an [[Russians|ethnic Russian]] majority and a minority of both ethnic [[Ukrainians]] and [[Crimean Tatars]], and thus [[Demographics of Ukraine|demographically]] possessed one of the Ukraine's largest Russian populations. In the past polls showed support for unification with Russia, with 73% supporting unification with Russia in 2008(with 85% of Crimean Russians supporting this option, 65% of Crimean Ukrainians, and 17% of Tatars)<ref>Historical Dictionary of Ukraine Ivan Katchanovski, Zenon E. Kohut, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Myroslav Yurkevich page 116-117</ref>. A poll of the Crimean public was taken by the Ukrainian branch of Germany's biggest market research organization, GfK, on 16–22 January 2015. According to its results: "Eighty-two percent of those polled said they fully supported Crimea's inclusion in Russia, and another 11 percent expressed partial support. Only 4 percent spoke out against it. ... Fifty-one percent reported their well-being had improved in the past year."<ref name=poll>{{cite news|last1=Bershidsky|first1=Leonid|title=One Year Later, Crimeans Prefer Russia|url=http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-02-06/one-year-later-crimeans-prefer-russia|publisher=[[Bloomberg News]]|date=February 6, 2015}}</ref> Bloomberg's Leonid Bershidsky noted that "The calls were made on Jan. 16-22 to people living in towns with a population of 20,000 or more, which probably led to the peninsula's native population, the Tatars, being underrepresented because many of them live in small villages."<ref name=poll/> === Human rights situation === | |||