The United States announced on Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with Russia on a sea ceasefire to ensure…
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Crimea’s two Ukrainian Premier League football clubs have been left facing an unenviable dilemma after the lightning annexation of the Black Sea peninsula by Russia from Ukraine. With Moscow now making every effort to harmonise every aspect of life…
Almost every day for the past 30 years through Crimea’s turbulent recent history, Natalia Yudenkova has climbed behind the wheel of her number 52 trolleybus. She drives the trolleybus from the peninsula’s main city Simferopol to the Black Sea coastal…
Ukrainian flags flutter over a gathering atop famed stairs that drop down to the Black Sea in the mainly Russian-speaking western port of Odessa, where separatist tensions have bolstered patriotism. Since Russian forces took control last month of Crimea…
Gunfire rang out in Crimea’s main city of Simferopol on Tuesday, even as hundreds partied on the central Lenin Square to celebrate an agreement to incorporate their Black Sea peninsula into Russia. Two people were reported killed and two injured in…