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Crimea: Scenes From the 1990s

French sailors converse with residents of Sevastopol during their visit to the city. June 1, 1990 Dmitry Teleorov / TASS
Crimean Tatars stare from behind a barbed wire fence in a “ghetto,” which they built with official permission near village of Koreis in Crimea. Over 100 thousand Crimean Tatars returned to their homeland from Central Asia. The banner behind the returnees reads, "Motherland or death." Oct. 30, 1990 Vladimir Lagrange / AP
An operator works the control line in the Massandra Association, Crimea's oldest winery. June 1, 1990 Pyotr Nosov / TASS
Tourists at the "Yunost" (Youth) camp during a summer break. 1992 Vladimir Velengurin / TASS
Sevastopol residents stand in line for bread. March 1, 1994 Anatoly Morkovkin / TASS
A marine soldier of Russia's Black Sea Fleet's 881th airborne assault battalion, Ilnur Abzalov of Bashkiria, is pictured after exercises. April 1, 1997 Sergei Velichkin / TASS
A Ukrainian Navy seaman cleans a gun turret on the "Vinnitsa" anti-submarine vessel in Sevastopol. May 28, 1997 Sergei Svetlitsky / AP
A family of Crimean Tatars builds a house out of mud near the city of Alushta. Ethnic Tatars rallied on March 24 in the Crimean city of Simferopol demanding parliamentary electoral rights for all repatriates, regardless of citizenship. They also demanded guarantees of representation for the Tatars in the Crimean parliament and the local councils. TASS
Eight-year-old school pupils cover their heads with their hands and hide under their desks during an earthquake safety technique training in Sevastopol on Oct. 28, 1998 Sergei Svetlitsky / AP
A Krechet armoured vehicle, designed in 1915, drives near the bay in Balaklava. Aug.31, 1998 Sergei Tsvetkov / TASS

Three years after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, a move broadly regarded as illegal, The Moscow Times recalls the Crimean peninsula in the 1990s.

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