Crimea has been a battleground and a playground. Why it's coveted by both Russia and Ukraine
Russia’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but ...
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'I've Been Detained, Don't Text Me': How An RFE/RL Journalist Reported Undercover In Crimea
Since Russia’s occupation of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula in 2014, Ukrainian journalists have faced intimidation and violence.
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Why Putin covets Ukraine’s territory and turned Crimea from a playground into a battleground
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred the peninsula from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the USSR, to ...