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Kaspersky Lab Says It Has Become Pawn in US-Russia Geopolitical Game (reuters.com)
Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab, reacting to a U.S. government move restricting its activities, said on Wednesday it had fallen victim to U.S.-Russia global sparring while the Kremlin criticized the U.S. action as politically-motivated. From a report: The Trump administration on Tuesday removed the Moscow-based firm from two lists of approved vendors used by government agencies to purchase technology equipment, amid concerns its products could be used by the Kremlin to gain entry into U.S. networks. "By all appearances, Kaspersky Lab happened to be dragged into a geopolitical fight where each side is trying to use the company as a pawn in its game," RIA news agency quoted the company's press service as saying.
Crimea was legitimately Russian. It was gifted to Ukraine in the 1960s by Nikita Kryushchyev, when it hardly meant anything, since the Soviet Union was a single country. After 1991, it was legitimate to revisit that, since the majority of Crimeans were & are Russian. Moscow didn't do anything, and the only reason Russia rolled into Crimea was after Ukraine adapted a law making Ukrainian the sole official language, thereby making life potentially difficult for Russian speaking Ukrainians. That's why Russia rolled into Crimea, held an election there, and then annexed it.
The US would do well to drop Crimea, and just work on getting an agreement in the Donbass on getting Russian troops & operatives out of there, but guaranteeing Russian speaking Ukrainians all their usual rights under Kyiv