But as of now, he says, “no one is working with them” toward that end, and as a result both Crimea and the Russian Federation are failing to avail themselves of a potential ally in the current struggle, journalist Aleksey Polubota of the Svobodnaya pressa portal reports on Sept. 17.
Paul Goble: Crimean occupation head calls for mobilizing ethnic Russians in US against Washington
Sergey Aksyonov, the head of the Russian occupation government in Crimea has called on Moscow to help create "a powerful Crimean lobby" in the US by mobilizing Russian citizens living there against Washington and its support for the Ukrainian government.