In November 1854, the young Leo Tolstoy traveled to Sevastopol to join the beleaguered Russian defense against British and ...

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, ...

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 ...

The cannon was captured in 1855 at the siege of Sebastopol but when scrap metal was required for armaments, the gun was ...

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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Even Ukraine’s staunchest allies sometimes waver, tempted to suggest that Kyiv concede Crimea to Russia as the long-running war there wages on. They often fall prey to a persistent myth: that Crimea ...

Mustafa Dzhemilev was a six-month-old baby when Soviet troops uprooted his family from their homeland on the Crimean peninsula, packing them off into exile in Uzbekistan, 80 years ago this week.