Residents of Russian-occupied Crimea are increasingly angry about rising prices, widespread corruption among the outsiders Moscow has sent in to rule them, growing official pressure on their lives and the absence of any hope for improvement, Vladimir Mukomel says.

As a result, the expert from the Federal Scientific Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences says, it is no surprise that some in Crimea are increasingly pro-Ukrainian in orientation, especially in the wake of the election of Volodymyr Zelensky as president (ehorussia.com/new/node/18541).