banks , were legally canceled by the Russian authorities . According to one of the interviewees , “ Crimeans have won in all aspects . Those who had loans , loans have been canceled , those who had deposits in the banks , received their money back . People only won ”. On the other hand , another interviewee said that “ there have been talks on canceling the loans , however around sixty percent of the people paid their loans back , at least the people that I know have paid back ”. Other interviewees have also spoken about this saying that there was an option of not paying the loans back . Thus , it can be understood that most of the Crimeans benefited from this and that is the reason many people feel satisfied with becoming a part of Russia .
Another interesting finding pointed out by one of the interviewees concerns the issue of the church and religion . According to the interviewee , after Crimea came under Russia ’ s control , a question with regards to the status of the Armenian Apostolic Church arose . The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin decided to move Crimea out of the Ukrainian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and incorporated it into the Russian and New Nakhijevan Diocese . Understandably this caused issues in Ukraine : “ Ukrainian Diocese had problems because of this . From the perspective of logistics , the decision should have been made , as the head of the Ukrainian Diocese would not be able to attend parishes taken place in the peninsula due to the difficulties with entering Crimea . Therefore , it was necessary to incorporate it into either Russian Diocese with the centre in Moscow , or the Southern Russia Diocese with the centre in Krasnodar .”
If we try to look at the issue which the interviewee spoke about from the perspective of the logistics , it would be more reasonable to incorporate Crimea into the Southern Russia Diocese as the distance between Krasnodar and Crimea is only around 420 km . However , according to the interviewee , it was incorporated into the Russian and New Nakhijevan Diocese “ taking into account the difficulties that the Armenian churches of the Crimea had ”. The interviewee added that “ Moscow did a lot in order to restore the Armenian churches in Crimea in the last 5 years ”.
Cultural coexistence
Another interesting aspect that came about during the interviews referred to cultural and ethnic co-existence in Crimea . As Crimea is a multi-ethnic region it was interesting to learn how throughout the years Armenians coexisted with the other ethnicities of the peninsula . This issue will be presented from two sides . The positive side is about the peculiarities of cultural coexistence while the negative side is about cultural extremism . The positive example which was brought by one
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