In the Crimean capital Sevastopol workers are busy.
They're putting up billboards for a big referendum on March 16.
Residents of this mostly Russian-speaking region in eastern Ukraine have two choices.
Do they become sovereign, but maintain ties with Ukraine's new Western-allied government in the capital Kiev?
Or do they secede altogether, and join Russia, which gave Crimea to Ukraine in the 1950's?
(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) SEVASTOPOL RESIDENT, IVAN KOMILOV, SAYING:
"This is the reaction of Sevastopol people to the armed coup which took place in Ukraine recently. And those fascist forces who rule in Kiev."
The Pro-Russian billboards are easy to spot and not subtle.
They compare the government in Kiev to Nazis.
(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) SEVASTOPOL RESIDENT, TATIANA VALINTENKO, SAYING:
"I can only be in favor of billboards telling us that fascism should not enter here. We see what is happening in Kiev."
But not everyone wants Ukr
