The third period of the war was the extended siege of the last White forces in the Crimea. Wrangel had gathered the remnants of the Denikin's armies, occupying much of the Crimea. An attempted invasion of southern Ukraine was rebuffed by the anarchist Black Army under the command of Nestor...
Heightened security fears in the Baltic states following Russia's Ukraine invasion CNBC's Steve Sedgwick reports from Vilnius, the capital and the largest city of Lithuania, where he explains the geography and history of the region, and why it's so concerned regarding recent Russian military aggre...
It would have to push Russia out of its land bridge to Crimea and stop Russia from annexing large parts of Donetsk and Luhansk. Many experts fear that is beyond Ukraine’s capability. While Ukraine did remarkably well in the first phase of the war, Donbas is very different. To go on ...
Petersburg-born Ayn Rand's family fled to the Crimea after the Bolshevik October Revolution, but returned to Petrograd where she was one of the first women to enroll at Petrograd State University, studying Friedrich Nietzsche, and inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsy and Victor Hugo. She was kicked-...
In remarks affected by technical glitches, including one that intermittently modulated his voice to a higher pitch, Zelenskiy said the "illusion" of Russia's domination of Crimea and the Black Sea had been shattered. "The Russian (Black Sea) fleet is no longer able to ope...
LVMH, which also owns Christian Dior, Givenchy and Bulgari among other brands, said in March 2022 it would close its boutiques in Russia and halt business operations there after the country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Many Western goods are still shipped to Russia through interm...
took over government buildings and military installations, forcing the surprised Ukrainian units to surrender. Thecovertinvasion and illegal annexation of Crimea was given a sheen of legitimacy by a widely criticized referendum on March 16, during which it was reported that more than 95 percent of ...
They escaped the harsh Russian winters by heading to warmer climates in Crimea and southern Europe. Nobles that were unable to make a sufficient living from the land became imperial bureaucrats and military officers. The main influences on Russian society throughout the Imperial period were the ...
• The invasion has also shaken the Putin regime in Russia. The Putinist system, born in the violence of the Second Chechen campaign, has grown organically over the last 23 years. It weathered the ‘Moscow Maidan’ protests of 2011-12 and was boosted by the Crimea annexation of 2014. Pu...
According toAlchemy of Soulpresenter Anzhela Kalsynova, Rinpoche is the only [Russian] Buddhist leader who has publicly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And yet, the lama himself suggests that his co-religionists do not support the war, but are not openly opposing it due to concerns ...