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A local Tatar woman sells sweets outside the 16th-century Tatar Khans’ palace in Bakhchisaray March 29, 2014. From the 16th-century Tatar Khans’ palace in Bakhchisaray to the former tsarist residence that hosted the World War Two Yalta conference, Crimea’s heritage sites have become a source of bitter contention since Russia seized the region from Ukraine. […]


Opinion: The Bear Comes Uninvited to Crimea

Opinion: The Bear Comes Uninvited to Crimea

by | Apr 4, 2014 | Opinion

“The uninvited guest is worse than a Tatar!” This is how Alexander Pushkin begins Tsar Saltan, a fable in verse he composed in 1830. The founder of Russian literature, Pushkin came to know the Tatars when he spent two years in Crimea in the 1820s. He must have heard...