Crimea, a Strategic Bastion on Russia’s Southern Flank
... weapons in the peninsula, both supplement the already ongoing modernization of the Black Sea Fleet started in late 2000s. These capacities should provide the “Southern... ... renewal of the Kremlin’s influence in the Mediterranean and in the Middle East. The Ukrainian crisis has cast the Black Sea region at the heart of Russia-West relations... ... http://www.frstrategie.org/barreFRS/publications/notes/2014/201414.pdf [1] « Ukraine : la Rada abroge la loi sur le statut du russe » (« Ukraine : the...