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As the interim government struggled to resolve the country’s dire economic situation, Russian troops occupied the Ukrainian autonomous republic of Crimea. Shortly thereafter, in March 2014, Crimea declared independence from Ukraine and was annexed by Russia.
Mar 3, 2022 · Ukrainians tell a story of the origins of the Ukrainian nation going back to 11th century Kyiv, surviving centuries of oppression by Russia and Poland, and, finally, emerging out of the...
- Sheila Fitzpatrick
Feb 12, 2022 · People in Crimea overwhelmingly voted to secede from Ukraine during a referendum vote on March 16, 2014, and the Crimean parliament declared independence and formally asked Russia to annex...
- Becky Sullivan
Feb 27, 2014 · 00:56. Ukraine: A brief history of Crimea. As Ukraine's security forces seize two government buildings in the Russian-majority Crimea region, BBC News looks back at the history of...
Feb 24, 2022 · Although attached by land only to Ukraine, Crimea (Ukraine’s southern Crimean peninsula) became an autonomous republic within Russia in 1921, partly because of the peninsula’s strategic significance. Neither Russians nor Ukrainians constituted a majority there, and in the 1920s the Soviets cultivated the culture of the Crimean Tatars, who ...
Feb 27, 2014 · Crimea Facts About Crimea *An autonomous republic in Ukraine *Located on a peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov *Annexed by Russia in 1783 and was transferred to Ukraine in...
Beginning in July 2022, a series of explosions and fires occurred on the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula from where the Russian Army had launched its offensive on Southern Ukraine during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Occupied Crimea was a base for the subsequent Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast and Russian occupation of ...
