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.
Now known as Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the picturesque peninsula shooting out into Black Sea from mainland Ukraine was for centuries colonized and conquered by historic empires and nomadic tribes.reeks, Scythians, Byzantians and the Genoese have all left traces of their presence in Crimean archeological sites and placenames. The Russian Empire annexed the territory of Crimea in the last quarter of the 18th century, after a number of bloody wars with the Ottoman Empire.