Aqmescit is the native name of her hometown, Simferopol. Photo: Bradley Stafford. Elina Novokhatska was born in 1998 in a Crimea that existed as part of an independent Ukraine. A Crimean Tatar, she is ...

Rahman Yaacob is a Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. U.S. President Donald Trump's bargaining with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine by ...

On the Day of Resistance to the Occupation of Crimea, President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that it was the illegal seizure of Crimea that started the Russian aggression against Ukraine. The head of ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the 11th anniversary of Crimea’s resistance to Russian occupation in a post on Telegram on Feb. 25. “Today is a day of courage and honesty for all who ...

Three years into Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, China is closely monitoring U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy to end the war, as Beijing calculates its moves to position itself as a ...

Moscow’s terms are known: formal recognition that the four regions it annexed in September 2022 plus Crimea are now part of Russia, and withdrawal of the remaining Ukrainian troops from those ...

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the seventh week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.