What I think is remarkable is I have a student, living in Moscow but born and raised in Azerbajian, who is strongly against the war and Putin. He is an older gentleman, and has been travelling to Crimea for holidays for years. Yet he decided two months ago that this was the perfect time to buy a dacha/country house in Crimea-and he has been holidaying there while the war is going on. Takes him 20 hours to drive from Moscow now. I mean, the action is tone-deaf, and why would you buy and holiday next to a war zone and possible future war zone? but also, should Ukraine somehow reclaim Crimea- all property purchases are at risk of being cancelled. Why would you take that risk? Honestly, i think this is an example of the cognitive dissonance there- that even most anti-war Russians are largely okay with the annexation of Crimea.