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This conflict between russians in Crimea and west ukranians allways was here, but it wasn't so sharp. You have to understand, that Crimea - is a "country inside a country", we speek russian language, we think in russian, we live by russian traditions, but - we forced to watch ukranian tv, our cinemas are in ukranian language, our laws are ukranian, schools are in constant proccess of translation to ukranian also.... we don't want it now, we didn't want it 22 years ego...

About 60-70% supports Russia. Those, who doesn't want to join Russia are: - beach holders, which profits from semi-legal businesses - traders, which buys their goods in Odessa traiding port - tatars (in my opinion, 50% of tatars) just because of historical reasons

well, your skepticism is rather justified, taking into account all those contradictions in mass media

we asked to support us, we put russian flags in our citie's administrations, and Putin, after almost 10 days of waiting, finally acted, and this action was focuced on the most important problem - ukrainization of russian people in crimea and returning Crimea to where it must be, and to where it always was. Ofcourse, there are other goals, which Putin aims in Crimea, but after long living as part of Ukraine, and especially after 3 months of Maidan, we almost hate Ukraine, so those other goals don't bother us

to determine whether or not Crimea will become an independent nation

no, there are two questions: 1. to become a part of Russia 2. to remain a part of Ukraine, with more sovereignty, but we all think that if we choose #2, this referendum well be annulled by Kiev as soon as possible. Crimea was a sovereign Republic in 92, and Kiev annulled our constitution at that time.

I don't think russian troops will cross non-Crimean, what for ? If Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Lugansk want to stay in Ukraine, nobody will force them. Crimea is special because there are many russian people here.