Crimea

The UNESCO-listed city of Chersonesus (Greek: Χερσόνησος), located on the southwestern part of the Crimean peninsula—now part of Russia after its 2014 invasion of the area—was an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago. Settlers from Heraclea Pontica in...

A Crimea bridge crucial for Russia's military supply was damaged by a huge blast on Saturday morning. 

Russian police have arrested thousands of anti-war protesters after President Vladimir Putin’s partial draft of reserve forces. Armed forces detained over 1,300 Russian civilians in almost thirty-nine cities. The Russian human rights group OVD confirmed over five hundred in...

The monumental tomb known as the "Royal Kurgan of Kerch" in the Crimea was constructed in the 4th century BC; its ancient Greek architecture is evidence of the colony there that was founded by the Greek city of Miletus...

The history of the Greeks’ presence on the northern shore of the Black Sea, what is now Ukraine and Russia, goes back millennia, even before the Classical Greek era. The Myceneans, one of history’s first seafaring cultures, knew the Black...

American TV producer John Hanick aka “Jack Hanick,” United States citizen, has been charged with violating the Crimea-related United States sanctions in connection with his years-long work in Greece, Bulgaria and Russia for the sanctioned Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev. According...

A Russian general has been killed in Ukraine in what amounts to a major blow for Russia as it enters its second week after last Thursday's invasion of the country. Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky, the deputy commander of the 41st...

Russia’s Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday that additional troops are leaving Crimea near the border with Ukraine, having completed military drills. It follows yesterday’s claim that some of its troops massed on the Ukrainian border were pulling back. "Units of...

Russia announced on Tuesday it is pulling back some of its troops from near Ukraine after a build-up raised fears of an invasion. The Russian defense ministry said that large-scale drills continued but that some units were returning to their...

The US warned that Russia could invade Ukraine "at any time" on Friday, and urged US citizens to leave the country as soon as possible. Although Russia has stated many times that it does not intend to invade the country,...