Crimea has emerged as the central obstacle to ending the war in Ukraine. But for the strategic peninsula, being at the nexus of great power competition is nothing new. At the northern end of the Black ...
Russia's seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but it sent Moscow's relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since ...
The Crimean Peninsula, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea, has long been a fiercely disputed territory. Stuck in the middle of Ukraine and Russia, wedged between Putin and Zelensky, claims to ...