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The Primorsky beach in Yalta, Crimea, in 2017.Credit...Denis Sinyakov for The New York TimesKYIV, Ukraine — The Crimean Peninsula dangles off Ukraine’s southern coast like a diamond, blessed with a temperate climate, expansive beaches,…

Comment on this storyCommentThe U.S. government’s latest effort to crack down on the illicit use of cryptocurrency by rogue foreign regimes and criminals is running into resistance from the industry itself, including one of its largest…