Russia’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but ...

The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.

The United Nations General Assembly, the United States and many other countries condemned the annexation, and the U.S. and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia over its moves. Few countries ...

This is how Tatars ended up in Poland, in the eastern province of Podlasie. The so-called Tatar Trail, comprising of a circle of cities – Białystok, Sokółka, Bohoniki, Krynki, Kruszyniany, Krynki and ...

The leader of the Crimean Tatars added that at first, he thanked Putin for the reception (Dzhemilev was on a visit to Moscow in March 2014 but did not meet with Putin) because he was received ...

Crimea’s unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and Russia has spent centuries fighting for it ...

For 600 years, the Podlasie region in north-eastern Poland – on the present-day border with Belarus and Lithuania – has been home to the Lipka Tatars, one of the oldest continuously existing Muslim ...