simon ostrovsky from vice news. thank you again for joining us live from crimea. thank you very much. >> joining me now, nina khruscheva. this strikes me as this aspect of what is happening in crimea. we all know the military occupation, but essentially the cultivating in a very organized fashion it would appear of the appearance of organic pro-russian sentiment in places not just crimea but kharkiv, the second largest city. this seems insidious and a threat to ukraine's future than even the troops. >> it is. russians are very good at propaganda. they've been great at propaganda from the beginning. putin does function as a trained ussr man. so it is. also it's quite successful propaganda, more successful in the second half of the soviet union's life because in some ways, in fact, it is true a lot of crimeans are supporting the russians. they feel ethnically related to them. they're very resentment of giving crimea to ukraine. >> that's a very important point. one of the things i want to do is oversell this point. it can simultaneously be the case, portray ordinary people as a fact of this and there's some co