The History of Crimean Conflicts: Catherine the Great (1783) to The Crimean War (1853–56).
Putin illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. Holding on to it is crucial to his future & his legacy. Can Ukraine wrest it back from Putin’s hands? History tells us it will not be easy…
The Pythagoreans, by way of Aristotle, by way of my piano teacher, said ‘The whole heaven is a musical scale and number.’ This old teacher taught me music. He taught me about God. He warned me about the power of love.
In Soviet times, it was dangerous to believe in God, and it was dangerous to love. Some love is okay —the love of Lenin, love of Stalin — but there’s a certain type of love that can kill you. A deeper kind. A kind that possesses, disorientates. The love of family is dangerous enough. But then there’s a kind of love that when discovered, wants to survive like a disease, and it will ruin you as you try to protect it.
Kalani Pickhart, from I will Die in a Foreign Land. A novel about the Ukrainian Euromaidan revolution that was used a pretext by Putin for the illegal annexation of Crimea, 2014 (1).
At the end of September 2022, Vladimir Putin ordered the Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and…
