Original sentence: In 1954, Nikita Khrushchev, in a controversial and legally questionable  decree, transferred Crimea from the Russian SFSR to Ukraine, increasing the ethnic Russian population of Ukraine by almost a million people
Edited sentence: In 1954, Nikita Khrushchev, in a controversial and legally questionable decree, transferred Crimea from the Russian SFSR to Ukraine, increasing the ethnic Russian population of Ukraine by almost a million people