Whois records indicate that crimea.ua was created in 1992 and crimea.ru in 2000. This is a look at how the Internet Archive's "WayBack Machine" has cached both websites over the years of their existence.
In December 2013, crimea.ua started getting near daily visits from the WayBack Machine. This was just after the "Euromaidan" "revolution" began in November, but before it reached it's culmination in February, and before the international dispute over Crimea's sovereignty appeared. It's not clear how or why this caching regime took place, nor if it has any real significance. A closer inspection of whois details might be worth a look.
source: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://crimea.ru
info: http://whois.domaintools.com/crimea.ru
context: http://crimea.ru
source: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://crimea.ua
info: http://whois.domaintools.com/crimea.ua
context: http://crimea.ua
