What, according to Vladimir Putin, is Russia’s Temple Mount? The answer to this quiz question is: Crimea. It has “invaluable civilizational and even sacral importance for Russia”, Putin remarked in 2014, “like the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for the followers of Islam and Judaism”. Yet, for all its “spiritual” worth, it is the peninsula’s strategic value that is likely looming in the Russian President’s thinking these days.
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