Morning Edition host David Greene recently returned from a reporting trip to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine and annexed earlier this year.
He found a place in transition. Restaurant menu prices have been switched from Ukrainian hryvnia to Russian rubles. Sports teams now play in Russian leagues and Putin T-shirts are the staple on souvenir stands.
There are the more complicated transitions as well. Many Crimeans are conflicted about switching their passports, and their citizenship, from Ukrainian to Russian.
David's stories, produced by Lauren Migaki, are on air and online this week. They take us to from Russia's newly claimed border in the north all the way to the southern coast along the Black Sea.
The trip came on the heels of David's book, Midnight in Siberia, which chronicles another one of his NPR reporting excursions — a 6,000-mile journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Prior to joining Morning Edition, he served as NPR's Moscow correspondent. Today he's fielding questions on Reddit's Ask Me Anything. You can join the conversation by clicking here.
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