McCoy, Terrence
"We can step in Crimea, for example, by the end of December. Possible, possible. Not excluded that it be so," he added. Image:Vladimir Putin speaks at a rally in Moscow to support the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea to Russia in 2014 What are the chances of Ukraine ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his speech (Mikhail Metzel/AP) “Our country has regained its historical unity. This living and unbreakable bond can be especially keenly felt, of course, here, in Sevastopol, in Crimea,” he said. “They are with Russia forever now, as that is the ...
CRIMEA IS TURNING RUSSIA INTO A ROGUE STATE.The author discusses how the crisis in Crimea presents Russia as a threat to world peace. He agrees that Russian president Vladimir Putin will not stop his move on Crimea although other nations believe that Russia violates territorial integrity of the ...
Macron Says It Is a Mistake to Think Russia Will Stop in Donbass, Crimea More Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron attends a press conference on the day of a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium March 22, 2024. REUTERS/Yves Herman PARIS (Reuters) - A...
The international community is concerned because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2014. In the freezing months of February and March, Russia annexed Crimea, a part of Ukraine that formerly belonged to the Soviet Union. The annexation is not recognized by the international community. ...
Why Does Russia Want Crimea? Russia wants Crimea for a variety of reasons. For one, there is the historical argument that Crimea had been part of Russia before the country split into different regions. There’s also the argument that having control over Crimea will once again give Russia undi...
“We map the world as it is – not as people would like it to be,” National Geographic’s map-making authority says, as the educational entertainment giant prepares to mark Crimea as part of Russia after the parliament officially ratifies the measure. ...
The Atlas shows Crimea as a peninsula on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, but lines on a map do nothing to explain the complex makeup of a region that has been dominated by Russia for nearly 200 years but is now politically autonomous within Ukraine. ...
Russia first acquired Crimea in the same year, 1783, that marked the end of the American Revolution. To put it bluntly, Russians have controlled Crimea for quite a long while now and are extremely unlikely to give it up, so let’s neither hold our breath, nor premise our strategy on abs...