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Crimea marks 10 years since Russian annexation

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Minka Curr
March 18, 2024

Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea is widely seen as the beginning of the Ukraine conflict still being fought today. The peninsula is strategically valuable to both Russia and Ukraine, and Crimeans have deep ties to both countries.

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