Another war, fought between Russia and the West largely within modern Ukraine, holds lessons of its own: the Crimean War of 1853–56. The Gendarme and the Sick Man Like the Ukraine War, ...

March 18 (Reuters) - The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War. Crimea, which juts out into the Black Sea ...