MOSCOW, March 18 The courage of the Crimeans and Russia's prompt response helped to avoid the tragedy eight years ago peninsula, to which Ukrainian neo-Nazis were then preparing a bloody fate, said the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, chairman of the Russian Historical Society Sergei Naryshkin. Exactly eight years ago, Crimea and Sevastopol returned to Russia, to their «native harbor,» he said on Friday 
11:20Khabarovsk TerritoryDegtyarev congratulated on the anniversary of the reunification of Crimea with Russia Russophobic regime that supports neo-Nazism as part of the state ideology Residents of the south-east of Ukraine, people of Russian culture, who speak and think in Russian, expressed their fundamental unwillingness to remain under alien power,» Naryshkin said. Thousands of rallies in Kherson, Kharkov, Mariupol, and other cities were brutally planted, died at the hands of the Nazis, burned alive, the courageous defenders of the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, he recalled. «The same bloody scenario prepared in the Crimea. And only thanks to the courageous position of the Crimeans and residents of Sevastopol, Russia's prompt reaction on the peninsula managed to avoid the tragedy,» Naryshkin added.
