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.
Putin told a joint session of Russia's Parliament that the nearly 97% of Crimean residents who voted to join Russia over the weekend was an extremely convincing figure.. In our hearts, we know Crimea has always been an inalienable part of Russia, he said. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk called it a robbery on an international scale, one that Kiev will never accept. One country has come and temporarily stolen part of of the territory of an independent country, he said.