In Crimea, Russian return evokes Soviet ghosts for Tatar minority

BAKCHISARAY, Ukraine (Reuters) - For Sofiya, an elderly museum curator and an ethnic Tatar watching over a collection of Scythian gold inside an Ottoman palace once inhabited by Crimea's Muslim Tatar rulers, distrust of the Russians runs deep.

She frowns as she recalls her grandmother telling her about the day Soviet soldiers came to their home outside Simferopol, the Crimean capital, almost 70 years ago, rounded everyone up, and deported them to Central Asia.