Crimean authorities hope that US President-elect Donald Trump will recognize Crimea as part of Russia.
"Trump is consistent and persistent – there's no way he would change his position 180 degrees," the Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Georgy Muradov told the radio station Sputnik in the Crimea.
"They can correct him, they can bring him something the establishment demands, but he will not back down from his general line," the Moscow Times cited him as saying.
"We worked with him when I was in the Moscow government to build Trump Tower in Moscow, but unfortunately we didn't succeed and it didn't work out," he said.
