About 100,000 Crimean Tatars died as part of a massive deportation of these people by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin towards the end of the second world war.
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US president Joe Biden has warned of Armageddon if Russia uses nuclear weapons and says Vladimir Putin needs an ‘off ramp’ to de-escalate.
While some parts of eastern Ukraine have been under partial Russian control since 2014, other sections continue to fight back. Most residents overall have said they don’t want to be part of Russia.
Russian actions in occupied Ukraine are following a plan modeled on how the Soviet Union dismantled Nazi influence in Germany after World War II – including arrests and revised school lessons.
None of the available methods for holding Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable are likely to actually punish him, and they may even make new atrocities more likely.
The crisis between Russia and Ukraine began with Russian objections to potential Ukrainian membership in NATO. Now it’s clear that Vladimir Putin really wants something else.
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Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida
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Assistant Professor of History, Rowan University, Rowan University
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Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Russian and East European Studies, Arizona State University
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Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Harvard University
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Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer in International Studies, Defense and Security., King's College London
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Reader in Military History and Intelligence Studies in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University
