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Divers compete in jumping off 27-metre cliff platform in Crimea

Courageous divers from around the world competed in jumping off a 27-metre cliff-side platform, as a small village in Crimea hosted an international competition on Saturday, August 10.

Crimea

Watch: Valiant vaults into the Black Sea at cliff diving competition

UK contestant Gary Hunt took the world title for the fourth year in a row, winning the $7,000 (€6,200) prize.

Russia

What protests? Putin rides with Night Wolves bikers in Crimea

As massive anti-government protests took place in Moscow, Vladimir Putin rode a motorcycle with the Night Wolves bikers in annexed Crimea.

Russia

Council of Europe backs restoring Russian voting rights

The motion restoring Russia's voting rights — revoked in 2014 over the illegal annexation of Crimea — was approved late on Monday evening with 118 votes in favour, 62 against, and 10 abstentions.

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Should Russia hand back Crimea? 'Don't know' says EU top job hopeful

Watch: Should Russia hand back Crimea? 'Don't know' says EU top job hopeful

Crimea

Unconventional family: cat raises baby squirrels alongside new kittens

In Crimea, a cat named Pusha has "adopted" four orphaned baby squirrels and is raising them as her own alongside her new kittens.

Crimea

Euroviews. Putin's Crimea invasion, five years later: Nationalism doesn't pay the bills ǀ View

Average Russians no longer want to threaten — or annex — the world. They want to engage with it.

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Has life improved for people in Crimea since its annexation?

What is life like on the peninsula five years since Russia announced its accession?

Crimea

Putin arrives in Crimea to mark fifth anniversary of annexation

President Vladimir Putin arrived in Crimea on the fifth anniversary of the annexation and inaugurated two power stations.

Ukraine

What is the Ukrainian government's 'blacklist'? | Euronews answers

Russians dominate the list as tensions between Moscow and Kiev have reached a post-Soviet era high. What is the list about and who is on it?

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Crimea marks Women's Day with combat gear and flowers

Masked activists in military fatigues fanned out across the Crimean city of Simferopol on Thursday (March 7) handing out flowers to women ahead of International Women's Day and the fifth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation by Russia

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Futuristic spaceship theme park opens in Crimea

Crimea is usually seen as a tourist destination in the post-Soviet space, with its many beaches and picturesque mountains. The resort town of Alushta, replete with mountains and beaches, now has something more unusual to boast.

Russia

Moscow court extends detention of 4 Ukrainian sailors until April 24

Moscow court extends detention of 4 Ukrainian sailors until April 24

Russia

Russia widens ban on Ukrainian products

Russia bans chocolate, beer and nappies made in Ukraine, in its latest economic sanctions on Kiev

Russia

Russia dismisses Franco-German demand to release Ukrainian sailors

Russia's Foreign Ministry on Saturday accused Berlin and Paris of "double standards" and said their demands were "regrettable."

Crimea

Macron and Merkel demand release of Ukrainian sailors

France & Germany say Russia must release 24 Ukrainian sailors captured in Kerch Strait.

Ukraine

Russia completes wall on Crimea-Ukraine border

Security barrier equipped with sensors to prevent "penetration by Ukrainian saboteurs".

Ukraine

Martial law ends in Ukraine a month after Kerch Strait confrontation

Martial law was imposed after Russia shot at and seized three Ukrainian naval ships in the Kerch Strait on November 25.

Ukraine

Russian warplanes arrive in Crimea

Over a dozen Sukhois deployed as tensions remain high in the area.

Russia

'Euronews isn't chirping on this': Putin hits out over Russian sailors

Vladimir Putin took a swipe at Euronews after our reporter asked him about claims of a Russian military build-up in Crimea.