"The statement that Putin made in the occupied Crimea, the transformation of Sevastopol into the" Russian Mecca, "is an attempt to galvanize the election campaign for the presidential elections in 2018.

The fact that Putin launched the campaign from the Ukrainian peninsula, and the date of the election is scheduled for March 18, 2018 - the day of the annexation of the Crimea, clearly indicates that this is the theme and will be the main line in the entire election race. Add here a sharp increase and highlighting the theme of the "Crimean Bridge", the closure of the Kerch Strait.

By the way, the mention of Mecca, and not of Jerusalem, is such a Freudian reservation in Putin's way, given the rapidly increasing pace of Islamization of the Russian Federation.

Putin is tired, his environment is also tired, the birth of new meanings, entrusted to Surkov, who is also obviously tired and developed, gives such a strange result. Since the Sochi Olympics, Russia has not only achieved anything, but lost almost everything - prospects, growth, the remnants of respect, the future. And the only thing that Putin is trying to present as the main achievement of the third term is the Crimea.

But the seizure of foreign shrines, trying to make it their Jerusalem clearly smack of associations with the medieval Crusades.

The Christian kings managed to temporarily conquer Jerusalem, and even set up their churches there, and even declare that "Jerusalem - (France, Lombardy, England, on the list) is forever," but it was never possible to make it "our own". And like all stolen, Jerusalem slipped out of the hands of the Crusaders, despite all the pretentious rhetoric.

After all, arguing with history is always useless. A holy place, seized contrary to historical logic, can be declared a Russian Mecca or Jerusalem, but it will always remain Sevastopol. Ukrainian Sevastopol. Which sooner or later will again be "our". Really ours ", - concluded Berezovets.