Catherine the Great

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• 2/27/2022
  

  Wheat and Deep Ports: The Long History of Putin's Invasion of Ukraine

  by Scott Reynolds Nelson

  Every would-be empire depends on the global trade in food and energy; regardless of the consequences of the current Ukraine crisis, Russia's drive to control the Black Sea won't go away. 

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• SOURCE: Tablet Magazine
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  Before Crimea Was an Ethnic Russian Stronghold, It Was a Potential Jewish Homeland

  by Jeffrey Veidlinger

  Soon after Catherine the Great conquered the region from the Ottoman Empire in 1783, she opened it up to Jewish settlement, hoping that the Jews would serve as a bulwark against the Turks.