Agree - whatever its history and however bitter it may be to the Crimean Tatars, it's clear that by now the large majority of inhabitants of the Crimea, even outside of Sevastopol, want to be a part of Russia. Even if Ukraine could somehow reconquer it, which they can't, any serious plebiscite would still make it Russian.

Agree as well, for the same reasons.

This is the tricky one. I think it's absurd for Ukraine to join either one in the near future and I might consider to agree about strict military neutrality, so no NATO. But a promise to never attempt to join the EU, that's not a reasonable demand to make. Even Russia might some day join the EU after they go through some very, very thorough changes, there's no reason why Ukraine never could.

Strongly agree - for that matter, also in areas where they don't make up the majority. As I've said elsewhere, I also think the EU should do more in defense of Russian speakers' rights in the Baltics - Russian could and should have been an official language of the EU already a long time ago. Both because it's simply the right thing to do and because it's important to show the world a different kind of Russian identity than Putin's nasty ideology.

Obviously also agree.



Indeed.