Soar above the breathtaking landscapes of the disputed territory of Crimea, scene of geopolitical tensions between Russia and ...

President Donald Trump seemed confident he could quickly end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But more than 150 days into his ...

On 18 March, Vladimir Putin declared to the Russian parliament that Crimea had always been an inseparable part of Russia. But in fact the peninsula’s history is not so simple.

After World War I, as the old imperial structures were falling apart, Crimea was already on the map as part of Ukraine, during the reign of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadski. Given its geographical proximity, ...

Crimea has thousands of unique landmarks with no connection to Russia, and it is home to many ethnic groups. Russia’s version of Crimea’s past is cherrypicked, and its justification for the occupation ...

- Crimea is part of Russia and there will be no discussions on handing it to Ukraine, Kremlin says. - More than 14,000 people, mostly Tatars, have fled Crimea since the annexation, according to a ...

Crimea is mainly Russian-speaking and inhabited mostly by ethnic Russians, but it was recognized by Moscow — and all other capitals — as belonging to Ukraine until Russia changed its mind in 2014.

Ethnic Ukrainians, a shrinking minority, face similar pressure. “Everything left from Ukraine has been erased,” laments Archbishop Kliment, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox church in Crimea.

Google Maps had briefly changed about 900 Crimean place names, using names Ukraine plans to give to towns and streets under legislation passed in Kyiv last year banning Soviet symbols -- part of a ...