a whole program of events to commemorate the occasion it's celebrating what organizers call crimea's reunification with russia back in two thousand and fourteen moscow the events being marked with a three day festival on the i mean spring. our next report takes us through the events leading up to that annexation. march sixteenth twenty fourteen tens of thousands celebrate in crimea. have been insular had voted to become part of russia the man who is today crimea as prime minister congratulated the crowds don't go away we're going home a phrase repeated over and over on this day this time backed up by the russian national anthem. the previous month had seen violent protests in ukraine's capital kiev the demonstrators wanted to reduce russian influence the protests drove the country's pro russian president from power moscow responded by sending its forces into ukraine's crimean peninsula which has an historical link with russia soon the referendum was called but the result was