SEVASTOPOL — More than three years after Russia snatched Crimea from Ukraine, the peninsula is suffering through an extended season of discontent.
Shady, Kremlin-appointed bureaucrats are proving to be just as corrupt and inept as their Ukrainian predecessors. International sanctions, shrugged off in the heady days after the Russian annexation, have jacked up food prices while endlessly complicating ordinary aspects of life, like banking and travel.
