{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Context XXI","provider_url":"http:\/\/contextxxi.org","title":"\u201eNew Russia\u201c: Odessa and the Crimea\n","author_name":"Amelie Lanier","width":"1200","height":"800","url":"https:\/\/contextxxi.org\/new-russia-odessa-and-the-crimea.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/contextxxi.org\/new-russia-odessa-and-the-crimea.html'\u003E\u201eNew Russia\u201c: Odessa and the Crimea\n\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003EOdessa and the Crimea belong to Ukraine nowadays, but this is a very recent development. In Tsarist times the whole area on the shores of the Black Sea was referred to as “New Russia”, while landlocked Ukraine was also known as “Small Russia”.\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew Russia was founded in the time of Catherine The Great. After a Russian-Turkish war that proved disastrous for the Ottoman Empire and that was concluded by the peace treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardzha in 1774 the latter was forced to renounce from \u003Ca href=\"..\/new-russia-odessa-and-the-crimea.html\" class=' pts_suite'\u003E(...)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}