A series of blasts at military facilities have prompted residents and tourists to evacuate Crimea, an area of Ukraine that has been controlled by Russia since 2014. Here’s why the peninsula, a ...

One late-autumn morning in 1782 Empress Catherine II sat in her study in the Winter Palace drinking coffee and contemplating the fate of Crimea. In her hand was a carefully-crafted letter from ...

This post was updated at 4:18 p.m. ET. In 1954, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave Ukraine a gift: Crimea. At the time, it seemed like a routine move, but six decades later, that gift is having ...

Until last week, Russian troops – and even beachgoing tourists – had assumed they were safe in Crimea, which was occupied and annexed by Russia in 2014, because it was out of range of Ukraine ...

Crimea remains a focal point in European geopolitics. Its status will continue to influence the dynamics of the conflict in Ukraine and international relations.

Speaking about Crimea’s accessibility for tourists, Sergei Aksyonov noted that the Crimean authorities pin great hopes on stable operation of the Kerch ferry MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/. Crimea’s ...

Under the plan, the U.S. would “de jure” recognize Russia’s control over Crimea and acknowledge its “de facto” occupation of parts of Ukraine’s Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and ...

The occupiers are establishing strongholds in abandoned high-rise buildings in Crimea. This has become a systematic practice, according to the Telegram channel of the partisan movement ATESH. "An ...

A few days ago, reporters on Air Force One asked President Trump if he would accept Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. They had good reason to do so. As Trump prepares for his July 16 summit ...