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13.05.2007, 13:24
May 13 marks 224 years since the foundation of Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Currently, the fleet consists of more than 46 vessels, and employs more than 15,000 Navy servicemen and 20,000 civilians.
21.09.2007, 15:57
A man, who's thought to be a priest, has been detained as Ukrainian Cossacks clashed with police in the city of Odessa. The fighting took place around a monument to the Russian Empress, Catherine the Great.
14.06.2008, 16:16
The Ukrainian port of Sevastopol is marking its 225th anniversary. About three quarters of the city's residents are ethnically Russian, and the port is the main base of Russia’s Black Sea fleet. But that could soon end a
27.10.2007, 21:22
Ukrainian nationalists and police have clashed in the city of Odessa at the unveiling of a monument to the city's founder – Russian Empress Catherine the Great.
Published: 28 October, 2008, 17:30
Police in Ukraine are hunting vandals who covered a statue of eighteenth-century Russian Empress Catherine the Great in yellow and blue paint – the colours of the Ukrainian flag. It's thought the monument in the Crimean city of Sevastopol was d
