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 ...

Russia does not confirm or deny the presence of The Crimea has tactical nuclear weapons, and also does not provide the United States with information on the "Megan incident," the American military ...