In courting the country’s most loathed oligarch, the EU and US will only lose the sympathy of ordinary Moldovans.
A new history of Crimea argues for the peninsula’s central importance to Europe — via Russia. The result is misleading.
The Crimean Tatar population following Russian annexation is under renewed pressure. As a new history of the community shows, their troubles have many historical precedents—rooted in Russia's first annexation of the peninsula.