The Russian president pointed to the desire of the people to return to their historical homeland MOSCOW, May 29. /TASS/. Crimea’s return to Russia in 2014 happened because Crimeans and residents ...

Crimea has been a crossroads for millennia, colonized by serial invaders from Mongol warriors to Genoese traders. Catherine the Great annexed it for Russia in 1783, and World War II brought a Nazi ...