The Autonomous Republic of Crimea is located on the Crimean Peninsula.Simferopolis the capital city of the region. The Crimean Peninsula is divided into two parts. The first one is a steppe area, with huge open spaces and dry, hot summer. The other part consists of the coasts of the Black...
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Ukrainian officials are pleased that the United Nations has acknowledged that Russia is an occupying power in Crimea… byPaul A. Goble Read More 2 minute read Crimea Opinion It matters profoundly what ‘Crimean Tatars’ are called, Belitser says Moscow has made a concerted effort to present...
Since that time, Crimea has existed as a semi-autonomous region of the Ukrainian nation, with strong political bonds to Ukraine — and equally strong cultural ties to Russia. Crimea has its own legislative body — the 100-member Supreme Council of Crimea — and executive power is held by a...
What shared characteristics led the Crimean Peninsula and the Donbas region to become conflict zones? These two regions are not in immediate geographic proximity to one another. The Donbas, comprising Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, is Ukraine's easternmost region, bordering on Russia in the north....
-russia's plan to temporarily restrict movement of foreign warships in part of the black sea will not affect the nearby kerch strait, the ria news agency reported on friday, signalling lower risks for regional trade from russia-ukraine tensions. the kerch strait is ...
"Venetian people realized that we are a nation (worthy of) self-rule and openly oppressed, and the entire world is moving towards fragmentation - a positive fragmentation - where local traditions mingle with global exchanges." Voters leave a polling station after having casted their vote in Venic...
The European Union is also considering sanctions, but has so far been more cautious. Any action would be much harder to organize for a 28-nation bloc that takes decisions unanimously and many of whose members depend on Russian natural gas. ...
Better maritime monitoring would help, he said. “Something that needs to be done is improve intelligence sharing in [the Romanian city of] Constanta. Ukraine and Georgia see everything there. If you could establish a common shared maritime picture of the Black Sea and what’s g...
But the Mongol empire soon started to splinter into separate states under Genghis’s descendants: Crimea was ruled by the Mongol state known as the Golden Horde that controlled much of what is today Russia, whose princes, including the grand princes of Muscovy, served as Mongol vassals. When ...