Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula Moscow annexed in 2014, yesterday on a trip quickly denounced by Kiev as a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty.He made a stop at the legendary Artek holiday camp for young people, dating from Soviet times, on the shores of the Black Sea, the Kremlin said in a statement.Founded in 1925 based on an idea from Lenin, the father of Russian communism, Artek went from a sanitorium for children with tuberculosis to a camp for “pioneers”, the communist youth organisation for children aged 10 to 14.After the collapse of the Soviet Union in …read more
Source: Gulf times
