Murdered for speaking their mother tongue, kidnapped for their religion, harassed for daring to question Vladimir Putin - and money so tight even the strippers can't get paid: welcome to the tourist jewel of Crimea almost nine months on from Russia's military annexation.
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Officers the Russian riot police force OMON take part a training session in the Crimean capital Simferopol, on May 17 2014, ahead of the 70th anniversary of the 1944 Crimean Tatars deportation by the Soviet Union, a major day of mourning that this year will be marked amid tensions over Moscow's annexation of the peninsula.
