The site of a mid-19th century conflict, in which modern day country is the Crimean peninsula?
Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People special forces, local authorities held a referendum on "reunification with Russia", the official result of which was a large majority in support. The Mejlis boycotted the referendum. Russia then officially annexed Crimea late March 2014. (Ukraine does not recognise the annexation and, backed by most of the international community, continues to assert its right over the peninsula.) After the annexation most Mejlis members did not cooperated with the new Russian-Crimean authorities. Of the six members that did one became deputy Crimean parliament speaker and another head of the Crimean state committee for interethnic relations and deported peoples. In May 2014,
Mid-century modern Mid-century modern Mid-century modern (MCM) is the design movement in interior, product, graphic design, architecture, and urban development from roughly 1945 to 1975. The term, employed as a style descriptor as early as the mid-1950s, was reaffirmed in 1983 by Cara Greenberg in the title of her book, "Mid-Century Modern: Furniture of the 1950s" (Random House), celebrating the style that is now recognized by scholars and museums worldwide as a significant design movement. The Mid-Century modern movement in the U.S. was an American reflection of the International and Bauhaus movements, including the works of Gropius, Florence Knoll, Le Corbusier and