Dear Mr. President,
The overwhelming majority of the residents of Crimea, Lugansk and Donetsk areas are ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking, I am sure that they wish to be Russian citizens, and should be allowed to according to the principles of democracy. Transferral of these areas to Russia was a voluntarist act of the communist government; the citizens were not asked. It can be reasonably assumed that a majority of the whole population of Ukraine (except West Ukraine - Galicia) would wish to join Russia because of economic and linguistic reasons: for Russian-speakers the Ukrainian language is a regional dialect, and a majority would wish to speak and to teach children Russian. Moreover, the bulk of American aid to Ukraine will flow into the corruption channels.



