The Economist: Turning out the lights in Crimea
People walk along a street during a power outage in the Crimean city of Simferopol on Nov. 23.
Ukrainian nationalist saboteurs blew up transformers and cut power lines to Crimea on Nov. 21 in an attempt to punish Russia for annexing the peninsula last year. Crimea relies on Ukraine for nearly all its electricity, and most of its 2m residents have been plunged into darkness, dependent on emergency generators and candles.
