Вместе с Россией. 16 марта – Референдум! (Together with Russia. 16 March: Referendum!): Simferopol billboards
Two roadside billboards beside a highway in Simferopol carry the same design: a white field with the blue headline 'Together with Russia', a red-outlined check-mark box, and a red band below reading '16 March: Referendum!'. The white, blue and red of the design repeat the Russian tricolour, and the check mark sits beside the one option named, so the country's colours and the voting mark are attached directly to a single answer. Green road signs in Ukrainian ('Виїзд', 'Щасливої дороги!') stand behind them.
- Date
- March 2014
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Pro-referendum campaign in Crimea (sponsor not named on the billboards); the referendum was called by the Supreme Council of Crimea and the Sevastopol city council
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Republic of Crimea Unrecognised
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Crimean de Facto Authorities
- Leader
- Sergey Aksyonov
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Elections and party politics
- Event
- Crimean Status Referendum 2014
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0 (photograph by Bogomolov.PL, own work, per Wikimedia Commons)
Bogomolov.PL, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Вместе с Россией [check-mark box icon] 16 марта – Референдум! [second billboard, cut off by the frame: Вместе … / 16 марта …] [background road signs, Ukrainian:] Щасливої дороги! / Виїзд →
Together with Russia [check-mark box icon] 16 March – Referendum! [second billboard, cut off by the frame: Together … / 16 March …] [background road signs, Ukrainian:] Have a good trip! / Exit →
The second billboard on the right is cropped by the edge of the photograph and only the start of each line is visible. The hyphen before 'Референдум' is printed as a dash. The two green road signs at left are small and partly blurred; their text is read from the committed image at zoom.
