In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with workers as he attends the inauguration of electricity connection with the Russian mainland in Simferopol, Crimea. President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday traveled to the capital of Crimea to open an electricity connection with the Russian mainland, 10 days after the peninsula lost power coming from Ukraine. After Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, it began building an underwater electricity cable system to the peninsula from Russia's Krasnodar region. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)