"Crimea is no Kosovo, we didn't come and grab it" (Sputnik)
Vladimir Putin said that Crimea is not Russian because the Russians came and "grabbed something."
Instead it is Russian "because the population only through a referendum asked to be received in Russia," he said.
"Crimea is ours... Why is it ours? Not because we came and grabbed something," Putin said at a meeting of the Valdai debating club.