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Peter Hitchens demands to be reproduced in full: All right, I admit it, it’s not that brief. I didn’t have time to shorten it. But what follows is a condensed history of the argument about who should control Crimea, one which still rages and which...

As the Ukrainian Government retakes two strategically insignificant but symbolically important cities in Eastern Ukraine, this very interesting BBC article (originally posted on June 25th) perhaps explains why Valdimir Putin seems to have gone cold on...

Testing a female captive’s teeth in an eastern slave market. The horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade have left an ineradicable mark on history. In the course of a little more than three and a half centuries, 12.5 million prisoners – at least two...

Photo courtesy of wikipedia.org Simferopol, Ukraine (CNN) — [Breaking News Update, 10:02 a.m. ET] (CNN) — Russia’s upper house of parliament voted Saturday to approve the use of military force in Ukraine. The vote was unanimous. ...

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (CNN) – Russia’s upper house of parliament voted unanimously Saturday to approve sending Russian military forces into Ukraine, amid mounting tensions in the country’s Crimea region. The vote followed a request from...