This is the fourteenth in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. Even though the fighting in 1853-56 had aspects of a pan-European ...
The Ukrainian flag has never really been embraced in Sevastopol and its famed port, home to Russia's Black Sea fleet since the time of the tsars. And as Moscow cements its control over Crimea, ...
The book begins with the German invasion of Crimea by Erich Von Manstein’s Eleventh Army in 1941. The successful First Siege of Sevastopol is recounted and the failed Soviet counter-offensives into ...
The co-production started filming in Crimea last fall. By Vladimir Kozlov MOSCOW — As tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalate, the two countries’ filmmakers are struggling to complete a ...
The Kremlin says that Russia-annexed Crimea remains vulnerable to Ukrainian attacks after officials there said the Russian Navy had shot down a drone near its Sevastopol Black Sea Fleet naval base, ...
A year ago a powerful German siege army, reinforced to 14 divisions, for the third and last time in eight months attacked the Russian naval base of Sevastopol. Not long after the assault began, a ...
In the ninth month of the siege the Germans broke through. Step by step, the haggard defenders retreated to the coast. The women & children boarded the last ships out. When the wounded were taken off ...
The movie is notable as the latest Russian-Ukrainian co-production, the shooting was launched on the Crimean peninsula in autumn 2013, before anti-government protests in Kiev began North Caucasus ...