Khrushchev gave away Crimea on a drinking binge??
So say Russian nationalists, who are doing what they can to reverse the 1954 transfer of ownership of the Crimean Peninsula from the USSR to, well the other USSR (Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic).
With Ukraine aching for NATO membership, and Russia doing their best to thwart it, this dust-up centers around a naval base in the Ukrainian coastal town of Sevastopol. Vladimir Putin has nightmares of the strategic base falling under NATO command should Ukraine succeed in joining.
The (Scottish) Sunday Herald has all the he said, he said here.
Also see this post on the same topic, from a blog called Windows to Russia.