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The Crimean Peninsula: From Crossroads of Culture to Russian Colony

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: January 19, 2023, 19:00 – 21:00

The peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea has always been a bustling crossroads between Europe and Asia, its aura stemming from its history of ethnic and religious coexistence. Crimea never belonged to any one ethnic group and this made it dependent on nearby empires, which gradually narrowed down to two rivals – the Ottoman Empire and Russia. A key era for the peninsula was the Crimean Khanate, which came to an end with annexation by Catherine the Great in 1783. How does Putin’s intervention in 2014 compare with that move? What happened to the Crimean Tatars? And why do Russians believe that Crimea was and is Russian?

These questions and more will be answered by the authors of the book Poloostrov Krym (The Crimean Peninsula), Helena Ulbrechtová and Radomír Vlček from the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Slavonic Studies, writer Jiří Padevět and journalist and Russia expert Libor Dvořák.

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