Feodosia

Uh, that's in North Ossetia, about 600 miles inside Russian territory.

And we've also seen a lot of strikes closer to home, a fuel store in Feodosia in Crimea, uh, ferries.

The GUR, Ukraine's military intelligence unit, has hit ferries across the Kerch Strait, which that's the connecting mainland Russian Kerch with the eastern tip of Crimea.

Those ferries support traffic across the Kerch Bridge.

There is, uh, also the case in the 4th century BC, Scythian archers would dip arrows in the decomposing bodies of their fallen comrades, and, uh, use this to, you know, spread fatal infections.

Uh, there was a particularly famous instance in 1346 called the Siege of Kaffa, uh, which is found now in modern-day Feodosia, Uk- Ukraine.

This was, um, a force of attacking Tartar, uh, army people who catapulted plague-infected human corpses over city walls to try to break a, um, like a stalemate.

So, you know, people had walled themselves in, and the attacking force figured, "Well, everyone's dying of the plague, so let's just start flinging these-

It's exactly what the economist at the Kiel Institute meant by structural exhaustion.

A tour guide in Feodosia, asked by The Economist what she wanted, put it slightly differently.

No grand ambitions, no one trying to make things better, just the sun coming up in the morning and the tourists coming back in summer.

The spreadsheet and the beach have reached the same conclusion.

But there was also a Jewish colony in the Bosporan Kingdom on the Taman Peninsula at east end of the Cri- of the Crimea, separating the Black Sea from the Sea of Azov, to which Hadrian had Jewish captives brought in 137 after the victory over Bar Kokhba.

Later, a Jewish settlement sustained itself without break under the Goths and Huns in the Crimea, especially Caffa, Feodosia remained Jewish.

In 933, Prince Igor, 912 to 945, Grand Prince of Kiev, successor of Oleg- Regent after the death of Ryurik, founder of the Kiev Kingdom in eight sixty-two, temporarily possessed Kerch and his sons, Sviatoslav, Grand Prince nine sixty to nine seventy-two, wrested the Don region from the Khazars.

The Kiev Rus already ruled the entire Volga region until, including Atil in nine oh nine, and Russian ships appeared at Samandar, south of Atil on the west coast of the Caspian.