The votes in Crimea’s referendum have been counted. A complete, preliminary ballot count showed that 96.77 of voters have elected to join Russia, the chairman of the regional government commission overseeing the referendum said on Monday.<br /><br />Mikhail Malishev said “the number of voters of the Crimea referendum is 1,274,096 which is a turnout of 83.1 per cent.”<br /><br />The vote and Russian troops’ intervention in Crimea have triggered the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War. <br /><br />Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov’s regional assembley arranged the election which is not recognised by Kyiv because it doesn’t consider the vote legitimate.<br /><br />Russia’s finance ministry said on Monday Moscow may offer a special tax regime for Crimea
