File: Russian-Ukrainian sailors parading together in Crimea Ukraine, Russia and the wider international community are carefully watching developments in the Crimea peninsula where pro-Russian sentiment is strong. Pro-Kremlin gunmen seized Crimea's parliament and government buildings after pro-EU protesters in Kiev forced President Viktor Yanukovych out of power, raising fears that the Russian-speaking southern and eastern regions might seek secession. The Black Sea peninsula has housed Kremlin navies for nearly 250 years and was handed to Ukraine as a symbolic gift by a Soviet leader in 1954. File images of Ukrainian and Russian sailors marching side-by-side in a military parade in 2010 to mark the USSR's role in ending World War II. File images