Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
CNN: Back in the USSR? Spying and control in the new Crimea
A boy holds a Russian flag during a rally marking the one-year anniversary of Crimea voting to leave Ukraine and join the Russian state in central Simferopol on March 16, 2015.
How I can describe life in Crimea ufter a year under Russian's control? You start saying things like "Let's not talk about this on the phone" and become careful about the Facebook pages you "like." Because total surveillance and control has become routine - like it was in the Soviet Union.
