Questions surrounding the film Russians at War linger following controversy surrounding it at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Trofimova told CBC her film was an attempt to humanize ...

During the Crimean War of 1853-56, a London printing house compiled one artist's paintings of Crimean towns and landscapes to satisfy British curiosity about the peninsula. Nearly 200 years later, ...

The Crimean War was one of the defining conflicts of the 19th century, pitting Russia against an alliance of Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and later Sardinia. In this first part, we explore the ...

In the conclusion of our look at the Crimean War, we follow the conflict through its brutal sieges, infamous battles, and the eventual peace settlement. This part highlights the Siege of Sevastopol, ...

Eighty years ago, over three days from May 18 to May 20, 1944, Soviet security forces rounded up at least 200,000 Crimean Tatars on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and brutally sent them into exile ...

Crimea has emerged as the central obstacle to ending the war in Ukraine. But for the strategic peninsula, being at the nexus of great power competition is nothing new. At the northern end of the Black ...

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The deportation of at least 240,000 Crimean Tatars to central Asia by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1944 is forever ingrained in the memory of the people of that region. Stalin used claims, later ...

The Estonian parliament, the Riigikogu, on Wednesday officially recognized the mass deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union in 1944 as an act of genocide. The statement passed in the 101 ...