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Mar 19, 2014 · 19 March 2014. Reuters. The takeover has involved a diverse array of pro-Russia forces, from Russian troops to pro-Putin bikers. By John Simpson. World Affairs Editor, Crimea. The...
Mar 13, 2024 · RFE/RL. On March 16, 2014, an illegal referendum was held in Crimea as unmarked Russian soldiers, supported by some of the peninsula’s ethnic Russian population, seized public buildings and...
Jul 12, 2018 · Indeed, the Crimean peninsula has loomed large for Russian leaders ever since Russian Tsarina Catherine the Great annexed it from the Ottoman Empire in 1783. The strategically located...
Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea. Ukraine crisis: Sevastopol. Unidentified soldiers accompanied by Russian military vehicles patrolling Sevastopol, Ukraine, on March 1, 2014, a few weeks before Russia annexed Crimea and the city. (more)
Mar 17, 2020 · March 17, 2020. 7 min read. Editor's note: Six years after Russia illegally annexed Crimea, Ukraine lacks the leverage to restore sovereignty over the region, but the West should not accept...
Mar 18, 2019 · March 18 marks the fifth anniversary of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, which capped the most blatant land grab in Europe since World War II. While the simmering conflict in Donbas...
Sep 28, 2022 · Published Sept. 23, 2022 Updated Sept. 28, 2022. The Kremlin-orchestrated referendums in parts of Ukraine occupied by Russia recall a vote in 2014 in Crimea that took place under the watch of...
