Dmitry Medvedev, has ordered construction of a bridge to Crimea.

[dipsydoodle]

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Russian wires reporting that PM Dmitry Medvedev issued an order to build a bridge across the Kerch straights linking Russia and Crimea.



17 minutes ago http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/03/ukraine-crisis-russia-control-crimea-live

MOSCOW, March 3 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order Monday to construct a bridge linking Russia to Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula.

The bridge would span the 4.5-kilometer Strait of Kerch, which separates Ukraine and Russia, an estimated $3 billion project that has been under discussion for a decade.

Russian troops have fanned out across the Crimean peninsula in recent days, seizing strategic locations and reportedly digging trenches at an emerging border with Ukraine.

http://en.ria.ru/world/20140303/188050336/Russia-Revitalizes-Project-to-Build-Bridge-to-Crimea.html

[RedstDem]

1. wonder if Medvedev is taking advice from

Sahra Palin now?

Wait, she's probably just yelling over the fence in her backyard!

[dipsydoodle]

2. More likely Trajan

who built a bridge over the Danube.

At the start of the war, Trajan built another bridge over the Danube to move his legions faster into Dacia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Dacian_War

[Laelth]

3. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth