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The Crimean Peninsula, located at the northern center of the Black Sea, dominates the region’s geography—hence Putin’s unlawful seizure in 2014. With Crimea, Russia effectively controls the ...

Aqmescit is the native name of her hometown, Simferopol. Photo: Bradley Stafford. Elina Novokhatska was born in 1998 in a Crimea that existed as part of an independent Ukraine. A Crimean Tatar, she is ...

Vladimir Putin approved a list of instructions following the meeting on socioeconomic development of the Republic of Crimea and the city of federal importance Sevastopol, held on January 14, 2025.