Mapping the World
Season 35 Episode 6 - Ukraine-Russia: the Crimea issue
With its location in the heart of the Black Sea and its quasi-Mediterranean climate, Crimea has always attracted covetousness. Greeks, Byzantines, Genoese, Mongols, Tatars and Russians have successively taken an interest in it. Since the 18th century, to its great misfortune, the peninsula has been tossed between Ukraine and Russia, at the whim of wars and changes of regime... It was there, in Crimea, that the Russian invasion of Ukraine really began in 2014, at the time of the illegal annexation of the peninsula by Vladimir Putin. Crimea, a strategic region because it allows control of the Sea of Azov and offers an opening onto the Black Sea. But now also a highly symbolic territory, for Russians as well as Ukrainians: proof of the power regained for Moscow; symbol of the violation of its territorial sovereignty for kyiv from 2014, before the even more massive invasion of Russia in 2022.
Episodes in Season 35
Cyprus: the island of division
12 min
Arctic-Antarctica: the world of the poles
12 min
Nigeria: The Giant's Faults
12 min
New Zealand: A country that stands apart?
12 min
California: the limits of the model
12 min
Ukraine-Russia: the Crimea issue
12 min
Malaysia: The Malacca Stakes
12 min
Mongolia: between Russia and China, a unique path
12 min
Indian Ocean: New Delhi and the sea
12 min
Strait of Gibraltar, between Europe and Africa
12 min
Freedom of the press, antidote to tyranny
12 min
European Union: a tilt towards the East?
12 min
Persian Gulf: The Sea of the Middle East
12 min
Lebanon: Others' Wars
12 min
Episode 15
12 min
Olympic Games: a geopolitical flame
12 min
Wind-solar: a revolution?
12 min
Armenia: Small Country, Big History
12 min
Maritime power: a key issue of the 21st century
12 min
Drugs: New Trade Routes
12 min
Episode 21
12 min
Episode 22
12 min
Episode 23
12 min
Episode 24
12 min
Episode 25
12 min
Episode 26
12 min
Episode 27
12 min
Episode 28
12 min
