central Crimea

Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Crimea itself represents a third potential flash point.

The Balkans, northern Turkey, Crimea, and the Caucasus.

On his way to the Crimea, however, Putin encountered a notorious Russian nationalist motorcycle gang, whose members demand that the Crimea be transferred to Russia.

However, separatist pressures, while diminished, continue to exist in Crimea.

Advertisements for ride sharing to Crimea dominate local posting boards.

(Crimea was ceded to Ukraine by Nikita Khrushchev only in 1954).

There are 487 registered Muslim communities, 368 of them on Crimea.

Used to get a lot of this stuff in the Crimea.

He multiplied French interventions abroad, especially in Crimea, in Mexico and Italy.

The problem of Crimea will not be resolved quickly. Though Putin declared in his annexation speech that Crimea is an inseparable part of Russia, his behavior will turn against him.

Separatist pressures emerged in Crimea immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

As if by magic, Google Maps changed some town names in Crimea overnight.

These are some of the main attractions of Crimea as a tourist destination.

On 20 May 1994, the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of the Republic of Crimea adopted a decision on renewal of the validity of the Constitution of the Republic of Crimea of 6 May 1992.

There have also been attempts to question the status of Crimea as a whole.

One high ranking official, Sergei Belyakov, already lost his job, when he dared to apologize for the decision on Facebook. Anonymous International also jokes that Medvedev opposes Russia's annexation of Crimea, an acquisition that Russians have christened simply KrymNash, or Crimea is ours. Just this week, Medvedev was photographed in Crimea signing a map with this slogan.

Here, Ukraine, with its eight million ethnic Russians many of them in Crimea is key.

Most of the world does not recognize Russia's subsequent annexation of the territory of Crimea.

A lot has happened since Russia launched an undeclared war, first occupying and then annexing Crimea.

The training was held in Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, from 22 to 24 June 2004.

The Crimea was pronounced independent under Russia's protectorate and would become a part of Russia in 1783.

It fears that Russia will encourage separatist tendencies in Crimea, where the ethnic Russian population forms a majority.

Tourism The development of Crimea as a holiday destination began in the second half of the 19th century.

Plague was reportedly first introduced to Europe at the trading city of Caffa in the Crimea in 1347.

MADRID Even Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union with scarcely a shot fired, has proclaimed his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin s annexation of Crimea. The people of Crimea, he says, have corrected a historic Soviet error.

Trump seems happy to encourage self proclaimed Russian patriots like Olshansky, judging by his most recent comment on Crimea.

It failed also in Crimea when Russia sought to deploy its old strategy of divide and rule there in 1991.

If this idea stands, Russian minorities from the Baltic to the Crimea may turn out to be ticking time bombs.

Under an agreement signed in 1997, Ukraine granted Russia basing rights for the fleet at Sevastopol in Crimea until 2017.

Crimea is the only region in Ukraine where ethnic Russians constitute an overwhelming majority of the population (58 per cent).

The most important industries in Crimea include food production, chemical fields, mechanical engineering and metal working, and fuel production industries.

In this connection, I should like to state explicitly that the Republic of Crimea is an inseparable part of Ukraine.

He was a very rich man... with a quarter of a million acres in the Crimea, and an ardent sportsman.

He was a very rich man... with a quarter of a million acres in the Crimea, and an ardent sportsman.

It empties into the Black Sea, just west of the Crimea and near the mouths of the Bug and the Dnister rivers.

For me, as a member of the Parliament of the Republic of Crimea an integral part of Ukraine it is gratifying to recall that the decision on the establishment of this universal international Organization to ensure peace and security was adopted at the Crimea Conference, held in Yalta in February 1945.

Ukraine has its own potentially separatist region in Crimea, and the country s Russian minority numbers some 8.3 million (the largest minority in Europe).

That act is aimed at the change of the legal status of the autonomous Republic of Crimea as an integral part of Ukraine.

57. He provided the Committee with detailed information on the issues relating to the Crimea and the Pridnestrovye region, emphasizing that the problem of Crimea was based not on issues of nationality or race, but rather on political conflicts and that therefore it did not come within the scope of the Convention.

Ukrainian foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin reacted to the backlash on Twitter, referring to what Ukraine believes to be illegal occupation of Crimea by Russia

The change came after the Ukrainian parliament altered the names of 70 geographic locations in Crimea in accordance with its decommunization campaign in May 2016.

The southern shores of Crimea are located within a unique subtropical biome which is separated from most of Ukraine by a range of Crimean Mountains.

Since 1990, more than 260,000 formerly deported peoples and their descendants had returned to Crimea and now accounted for 12 per cent of its population.