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The Russian Black Sea naval headquarters at Sevastopol, Crimea, in 2008. In the background on the right is a Russian destroyer. The Russian tall ship Padalla (with white sails) is in the center. In the foreground is the Monument to Scuttled Ships, marking Russia's intentional destruction of its own naval fleet in the Crimean War in 1854 as British and French warships approached.

How Russia's current war in Ukraine echoes its Crimean War of the 1850s

Russia had a more powerful army. It didn't think the West would intervene. The invasion was poorly planned. We're not talking about Russia's current war, but about Russia's Crimean War in the 1850s.

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By:
  • Greg Myre
Armenian refugees on the deck of a French cruiser that rescued them in 1915 during the massacre of the Armenian populations in the Ottoman Empire.

Biden Could Call The Massacres Of Armenians Genocide. Here's What That Means

U.S. lawmakers expect President Biden to recognize the World War I-era mass killing and deportation of Armenians as genocide — even if it makes Turkey angry.

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By:
  • Peter Kenyon and
  • Krishnadev Calamur