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

Behind Putin’s war—and any discussions about peace—is a two-century-old fiction about the two countries’ unity.

For decades, if not more, English speakers the world over referred to Ukraine’s capital as Kiev, pronouncing it kee-yev. The city is pronounced keeiv in Ukrainian and is transliterated correctly into ...

October 2026: Russian invasion of Moldova Jumping forward ... Invasion of Finland and Poland The projection for the ...

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 ...