Signs and symptoms, which can vary from person to person, might include: 1  Runny or stuffy nose. 2  Sore throat. 3  Cough. Congestion.  Slight body aches or a mild 1  headache. Sneezing.  Low-grade 1  fever. Generally feeling unwell (malaise)
More than half of its 2 million people are Russian, and Russia still maintains a naval base there. In fact, the region was part of Russia until 1954, when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine as a present. When the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, Crimea became part of an independent Ukraine. Millions of Ukrainians work in Russia, and according to the EU-funded Migration Policy Centre, the Russia-Ukraine border is the second-largest migration corridor in the world.
13 photos: Ukraine's Crimea region votes. Ukraine's Crimea region votes â People stand in line to vote at a bank office in Simferopol, Ukraine. Results are expected on Monday. The United States has already said it expects the Black Sea peninsula's majority ethnic Russian population to vote in favor of joining Russia.