It's been nine years since Russian forces invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula. With the likelihood of Russia losing its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine looking ever more promising, is the end of Crimea's occupation finally near? On this week's episode of The Eastern Front, Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia speak with Elina Beketova, a democracy fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), about the fate of the occupied territories. Does the Ukrainian government have a plan for reintegrating Crimea's occupied population back into Ukraine? How has the ethnic composition of the Peninsula changed since 2014? The co-hosts and Beketova also discuss the human rights violations against Crimean Tatars and the brainwashing of Ukrainian children who have been abducted by Russian forces.

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