Nearly two years on, Crimea basks in its freedom from Ukraine, but Russian relations aren’t as rosy as many would likeOleg Zubkov was such a big supporter of the Russian seizure of Crimea that he promised to set his lions on any Ukrainian nationalists who attempted to enter the peninsula. An eccentric businessman who built and runs the two biggest zoos in Crimea, Zubkov even named one of his Siberian tigers Referendum; it was born on 16 March 2014, the day Crimea voted to return to Russia in a hastily organised poll branded illegitimate by the international community. Related: Crimea …read more
Source: The Guardian
