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...collection moves with ease between fine works by major masters--Rembrandt, Pontormo, Rubens, Mantegna, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Turner--and illuminatingly good ones by less famous figures, such as Franz Xavier Winterhalter's coolly sumptuous portrait of a 19th century princess on the terrace of her villa in the Crimea, or a small, haunting study of a young girl by the Belgian Symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff. It is already a deeply serious and discriminating collection and may turn into a great...
...CRIMEA: Ready to Cast...
Though their leaders favor retaining the Crimea's status as part of Ukraine, many Tatars in the new settlements are ambivalent. "I came because this is my home," says Mimyet Vileyev, 34, who arrived in the Crimea two years ago for the first time in his life. "I don't believe what any of the politicians say," he remarks with a shrug. "It's their fight...
Even as the Black Sea Fleet dispute heads toward resolution, larger issues continue to strain ties between the two states -- including the overall future of the Crimea and Kiev's resistance to Russia's taking the lead on economic reforms. Specially printed Ukrainian coupons, designed as a temporary currency to phase out use of the Soviet ruble, circulate freely in the republic. In Yalta's shops, cashiers give change in a random mix of coupons and rubles that leaves the buyer guessing about the value of both...
Many Russians in the Crimea fear that a Ukrainian currency would cut them off completely from the Russian state and relegate them to second-class status in Ukraine. Many Ukrainians, meanwhile, guard their newly won sovereignty jealously and harbor deep suspicions about the giant neighbor to the east that ruled their nation for three centuries and now professes democratic principles. "Imperial tendencies are prevailing again in Russia," warns - Ukraine's Kryzhanovsky, "tendencies based on the law of might, not the law of reason...