Russia itself formally recognized Ukraine’s sovereignty over Crimea multiple times: through the 1991 Belovezhskaya Pushcha ...

Her pioneering work during the Crimean War and her efforts to reform hospital sanitation laid the foundation for professional nursing as we know it today. The day was officially established by the ...

The monument marks the scuttling of the Russians ships in 1854 to protect the harbor from Allied troops (United Kingdom, French and Italy's Piedmontese) that landed in the Crimea and besieged ...

According to my notes, the museum covered more than the 1855 siege and battle of Kars, which concluded the Crimean War. It also had displays about the city fighting in 1877 and during World War I.

With their ancestral homeland at the heart of future peace talks with Russia, Crimean Tatars are fighting to keep their ...

Britain's most decorated war heroes took a final stand today before their gallantry gongs are removed from display. The ...

The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War. The issue led to another clash between U.S. President Donald ...

Ride the rails with Sean Connery on a thrilling adventure as he plays Edward Pierce, a master thief who devises an elaborate ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Crimean War of 1854–56 refracted far-off Russian actions through British imperial anxieties and liberal morality. The Balkan crisis and second Afghan war of 1878 are examples of Russophobia ...