Month: April 2017

On December 15, 1941, in the opening lesson on the history of the Black Sea, historian Gheorghe I. Bratianu identified two “key positions”, respectively decisive geopolitical positions that Romania had to include in its strategic calculations: “1. The entry of the Bosphorus and, in general, of the system of straits leading the navigation beyond this closed sea; and 2. Crimea, which, through its natural harbours, through its fortresses from the oldest times, through the advanced sea bastion it represents in the Black Sea is obviously a dominant position over all the maritime complex here. Whoever has Crimea can dominate...