The five maps that follow illustrate how Crimea ... of the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Crimea became part of an independent Ukraine.

Crimea became part of Russia within the Soviet Union until 1954, when it was handed to Ukraine, also then a Soviet Republic, by Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev, a Ukrainian. After the ...

The Crimea was part of the Soviet Union, Russia, until 1954 when Nikita Khrushchev (a Ukrainian) succeeded Stalin and handed it to Ukraine. There were many political disputes between Moscow and ...

For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a Russian delegation is ... Nearly nine years after the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014, the de facto consensus of Western observers ...

Washington-brokered negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine have largely boiled down to a diamond-shaped peninsula about the size of Massachusetts. Crimea had been contested for centuries by ...

Crimea residents voted in favour of independence along with the rest of Ukraine in a referendum when the Soviet Union broke up, and Russia and Ukraine subsequently recognised each other's borders.

It was to be called the Union ... Crimea in February 1945 to plan for the end of the war. The Yalta Conference laid out the contours of what would become the Cold War world, in which the Soviet ...

Mr. Gorbachev was still polishing a proposed treaty to hold the union together when he went on a break to the Soviet leader’s retreat at Foros in Crimea. Behind his back, hard-liners planned a ...

became part of the Soviet Union. The Tatars were deported en masse by Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the end of World War II for alleged collaboration with the Nazis. Crimea became part of Russia ...