Eyeing southern Ukraine, Putin resumed the tsarist route begun under Peter the Great. Facing him, Erdogan advances his pawns.
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The image went around the world in the spring of 2018: Vladimir Putin inaugurating the Crimean Bridge at the wheel of a truck, the longest in Europe, more than 18 kilometers, which connects the annexed peninsula to Russian territory proper, crossing the Kerch Strait. A way of celebrating Russia's return to the Black Sea, of which it had, before joining in 2014, only a small stretch of coastline, with a single large port, Novorossisk, north of Sochi, where Putin had organized the most maritime Winter Olympics in history. “This logic of consolidating its presence in the Black Sea, analyzes Isabelle Facon, who has just edited a book on relations between Russia and Turkey (Pasts compounds), we find it today in the probable temptation to…
