Crimea: Caught in the Middle; Russia, Ukraine Use Peninsula as Pawn in Fleet Dispute

From: The Washington Post | Date: February 13, 1992| Author: Chrystia Freeland | Copyright information

As Russia and Ukraine maneuver warily toward a new relationship in the post-Soviet world, the lush Black Sea peninsula of Crimea has found itself caught up in a tug of war between the two nuclear-armed Slavic giants.

References to Nagorno-Karabakh pepper conversations in the snow-covered central square of Simferopol, the Crimean capital, where residents worry that the political jousting here could erupt into a far graver conflict than the one over the contested Armenian enclave in Az...

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