(CNSNews.com) – In her first statement as acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, Heather Nauert on Wednesday marked the fourth anniversary of the controversial referendum...
KYIV, Ukraine— When the Russian soldiers first showed up in Crimea in February 2014, the young man felt like he was living a nightmare. “The Russians just magically appeared one day,” the now...
MOSCOW (Reuters) – One of Russia’s biggest oil companies, Tatneft, has been doing business in Crimea despite the risk of being placed on a U.S. sanctions blacklist, according to company documents and...
VIENNA (Reuters) - U.S. sanctions against Moscow will remain in place until Russia withdraws from Ukraine, United States Secretary of state Rex Tillerson said on Thursday, speaking in front of his...
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany may have to accept Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine as a “permanent provisional arrangement,” the head of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) told a...
BERLIN (Reuters) – German techno band Scooter faces significant legal consequences for performing at a festival in the Crimea region of Ukraine that was annexed by Russia in 2014, the Ukrainian...
Sevastopol (AFP) - The annexed Crimea peninsula was plunged into darkness Friday after a shutdown in Russia caused a massive power cut, officials said. The latest major outage to hit Crimea...
Mail Online
| 7/28/2017
| Will Stewart for MailOnline
An 'alien boy' with a weirdly elongated skull found in a tomb in Crimea was in fact a a boy marked out to be an ancient warrior, say Russian archaeologists. The artificially lengthened head was a...
KIEV/SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (Reuters) – The career of Sergei Yeliseyev helps to explain why Ukraine’s armed forces gave up Crimea almost without a fight – and why NATO now says it is alert to Russian...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The delivery of turbines made by the German company Siemens to Crimea shows the limits of policing European Union sanctions on Russia as no EU enforcement authority exists,...
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Technopromexport, a Russian state-owned firm which is building power plants in Crimea, said on Thursday it had bought four electricity turbines for the project on the secondary...
Former CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin said Monday that Vladimir Putin's reaction to accusations of Russian meddling in the U.S. election is similar to his first reaction when Russia annexed...
Speaking at a security forum in Slovakia on Sunday, a member of the Russian parliament suggested his country’s military would resort to nuclear weapons to repel a U.S.
As of late, the media has forgotten about tensions between Ukraine, NATO, and Russia. Crimea and the conflict in Eastern Ukraine have largely left the public’s awareness.
MOSCOW/SEVASTOPOL, Crimea(Reuters) – Russia’s $1.3 billion plan to build two new power plants in Crimea aimed to show that Moscow could complete high-tech projects on the annexed peninsula despite...
Mail Online
| 4/13/2017
| Amie Gordon For Mailonline;Press Association
Russia has pulled out of the Eurovision Song Contest following a bitter dispute with Ukraine over its entrant. The Russian television station Channel One has announced that it will not broadcast the...
The cognitive abilities of Neanderthals are debated, but a raven bone fragment found at the Zaskalnaya VI (ZSK) site in Crimea features two notches that may have been made by Neanderthals...
MOSCOW, March 18 (Reuters) - The Russian-backed prime minister of Crimea said on Saturday that Vladimir Putin should be made president of Russia for life and that the Soviet Union would never have...
Washington (AFP) – The United States reiterated its condemnation of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, vowing to maintain related sanctions until Moscow returns the strategic Black Sea peninsula to...
The U.S. State Department has vowed to keep sanctions on Russia over the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in place until Moscow returns control of the peninsula to Kiev, AFP has reported.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine is taking Russia to the United Nations' highest judicial body, accusing Moscow of financing separatist rebels and racially discriminating against ethnic Tartars...
The Trump administration is continuing the policy of its predecessor regarding the Crimea issue. U.S. ambassador Nikki Haley is the latest official to confirm that point.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday it would not hand back Crimea to Ukraine or discuss the matter with foreign partners after the White House said U.S. President Donald Trump expected the...
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will not hand back control of Crimea to Ukraine, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday, responding to comments from the White House that the United States expected...
U.S. President Donald Trump made it clear he expects Russia to return Crimea to Ukraine and reduce violence in Ukraine, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Tuesday.
With every passing day, it appears that many of the anticipated foreign policy changes under the new administration may end up being nothing but smoke and mirrors.
Unless the U.S. government’s lies about Crimea — the ‘Russia seized Crimea’ narratives — become acknowledged to be lies, war between the U.S. and Russia can only continue to become increasingly...
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine indicated on Wednesday it would bar French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen from entering the country after comments she made that appeared to legitimize Russia’s...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Dutch court has ruled that a trove of historical artefacts that is being held by an Amsterdam museum must be returned to Ukraine and not to four museums in Crimea that loaned out...
Mail Online
| 3/3/2014
| Thomas Burrows;Gareth Davies For Mailonline
Ukraine has began two days of missile tests near Crimea in a move that has infuriated Russia in a fresh escalation of tensions between the two countries. Relations between the one-time allies...
BY: Morgan Chalfant Ukraine plans to conduct missile test launches near the border with Russian-occupied Crimea this week amid threats from Moscow that it will launch a military strike in...
MOSCOW, December 1. /TASS/. Ukraine still hasn’t responded to Russia’s request to cancel missile firing drills near Crimea, Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov told reporters on the sidelines of the...
KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine began two days of missile tests near Crimea on Thursday – a move that has angered Russia, which has put its air defence forces on high alert and deployed warships in...
Ukraine was due to start two days of missile tests on Thursday - a move that has angered Russia, prompting it to put its air defense forces on high alert on the annexed Crimea peninsula.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – An EU court on Wednesday upheld sanctions imposed on Arkady Rotenberg, a close ally and former judo partner of Russian President Vladimir Putin whose company won a contract to...
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Moscow protested against Ukraine's plans to carry out missile tests near Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014 following the toppling of a pro-Russian Ukrainian president,...
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – Moscow protested against Ukraine’s plans to carry out missile tests near Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014 following the toppling of a pro-Russian Ukrainian president,...
MINSK (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s detention of two Russian soldiers near the border with Crimea was “a provocation.
Shortly after Russia admitted that it was moving nuclear-capable rockets to the exclave of Kaliningrad in explicit retaliation for NATO encroachment on its borders, something it had not done until...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a meeting of the country's top brass to discuss boosting security in Crimea following the reports of foiled attacks.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine on Wednesday of using terrorist tactics to try to provoke a new conflict and destabilize annexed Crimea after Russia said it had thwarted two armed...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's main domestic security agency said Wednesday that one of its agents and an army soldier were killed while fending off what it described as a series of attempted terror attacks...
Business Insider
| 8/10/2016
| Andrew Osborn and Lidia Kelly, Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said it had thwarted two armed Ukrainian attempts to get saboteurs into Crimea and dismantled a spy network inside the annexed peninsula, accusations Ukraine dismissed on...
Ukraine's ambassador to the United States said he's worried Donald Trump "doesn't have all the facts" about Russia's activities and intentions in Ukraine. In an interview Monday with CNN's "At This...
Donald Trump has come under fire for his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ties to the country--and he suggested Sunday that he might recognize Russia's control of Crimea.
Donald Trump insisted Russia's Vladimir Putin is 'not going to go into Ukraine' Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin won't make a military move into Ukraine...
BY: Morgan Chalfant Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would look into recognizing Crimea as a Russian territory should he be elected president in November. Trump - Question - Crimea - Russia -...
Russia will move advanced S-400 surface to air missiles into the illegally annexed Crimean peninsula next month, Russian Lt. Col. Evgeny Oleinikov recently told RT.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has extended for another year some of its sanctions targeting Russia over its annexation of the Crimean peninsula. For two years, the 28-nation EU has imposed ever...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union extended for a year on Friday a ban on business dealings with the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 in a move that has...