Ala Creciun Graff, AHA member and recipient of one of the Association’s 2018 Bernadotte Schmitt Grants, wrote an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun concerning the symbolism of the newly unveiled statue of Russian Tsar Alexander III in Crimea. Graff sees this statue as evidence of Moscow’s desire “to signal historical continuities with the peninsula” and Putin’s larger goal “to re-assert Russia on the global stage.”
