Crimea for Russians is “like the Temple Mount in Jerusalem” - TopicsExpress



          

Crimea for Russians is “like the Temple Mount in Jerusalem” for Muslims and Jews, Putin said, and would be regarded this way “from now on and forever.” Vladimir the Great was baptized in Kherson, Crimea, Putin explained in his annual address yesterday to parliament and top officials in Moscow, an event in 988 that is considered to be the beginning of the Christianization of Kievan Rus, a precursor state to Russia and Ukraine. “Prince Vladimir was Kievan, not Muscovite, and this probably only underlines the right of Kiev and not Moscow to Crimea,” Andrei Zubov, a Russian historian and political scientist, said in an interview.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:48:11 +0000

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