On August 21, the Olympic Games, in which Crimean athletes took part, were officially closed. However, this year these athletes represented different teams – from Ukraine and the Russian Federation that annexed Crimea in March 2014. The woman-gymnast Anna Rizatdinova has the greatest achievement among three Crimeans participated in the competitions under the Ukrainian flag…
The Rosselkhoznadzor (Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance) officers seized 1.2 tonsof Polish apples and hot pepper from the wholesale warehouse and disposed at the MSW landfill. The press service of the ‘Rosselkhoznadzor’s department for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol’ informed about that. “The products forbidden to import to the Russian Federation with…
Both the OSCE and CIS observers won’t attend Crimea occupied by Russia to monitor the elections to the State Duma. The CEC member Vasiliy Likhachev informed about the refusal of the CIS executive committee to monitor the elections to the State Duma in Crimea, Kommersant reports. “As for the CIS mission, the conversation showed that…
In occupied Simferopol, people bring the flowers decorated in the Ukrainian symbols to the TarasShevchenko monument. Krym.Realii informs about that. In spite of the police and ‘self-defense’ units as well as installed CCTV cameras, the Crimeans brought flowers to the monument of Kobzar. As a reminder, on Independence Day, the President of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko…
A large French company is operating in occupied Crimea in spite of sanctions and ready to invest in the recycling of waste on the South Coast of Crimea. The ‘Minister’ of Housing and Communal Services of Crimea Sergey Karpov informed about that, Kryminform reports. “In spite of everything, the French company is operating here, on…
Beaches of Sevastopol occupied by Russia are provided with minimal infrastructure, debris and seaweeds are cleaned not everywhere, and children are risking their lives by jumping from emergency piers. The correspondent of the Sevastopol news portal “Primechaniya” made this conclusion having inspected the city’s beaches. The main problem is a lack of free toilets…
In Crimea, sandy beaches are disappearing on the coast from Evpatoriya to Novofedorovka: a stretch of sand reduced from 100 to 7.5 m. The ‘deputy head’ of the Saki city administration, city’s chief architect Galina Irhina informed about that, the Kryminform reports. “The coastal area from Evpatoriya to Novofedorovka is 5.8 km and a third…
The main priority of Sevastopol is to maintain the Black Sea Navy Fleet of the Russian Federation. The ‘acting governor’ of the city Dmitriy Ovsyannikov reported about that in the interview to TASS. “Of course, priority is given to all the competencies associated with the Black Sea Navy Fleet maintenance. Not with the development since…
Any changes in society are reflected in the language. The occupation of Crimea by Russia significantly influenced the peninsula’s language, where new words (neologisms) appeared. They reflect both the social and political changes that took place on the peninsula and, in fact, the Crimeans’ and often the Russians’ attitude towards them. “The eighty second”…
The mortality rate has increased by 6.5% compared to the same period of 2015 in Crimea occupied by Russia. This is evidenced by the Krymstat’s data. It is reported that the death rate was 4.0 thousand people in January-June 2016 and it increased by 6.5% in comparison with January-June 2015. The natural decline in…
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A number of HIV-infected persons is increasing annually by 10-12% in Crimea
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Climent: Moscow Patriarchate tries to take away the building of Ukrainian church in Crimea
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Ukrainian people’s deputies in the struggle for occupied Crimea
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Sevastopol “government”: the level of corruption in the city reached 75%
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“Krymstat”: a third of enterprises in Crimea are loss making
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A “Minister”: Medical centers of Crimea are staffed by doctors only by one third
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In Crimea, the number of road traffic victims increased by 50% over the period of annexation
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Supported NGO «The Crimea Center of Business and Cultural Cooperation «Ukrainian House» within the framework of the project "Return of the Crimea."In the Crosshairs" of the society" by the Media Development Fund of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. The views of the authors do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Government.
The Crimean Centre for Business and Cultural Cooperation ‘Ukrainian House’, founded in 1999 and until recently based in Simferopol, Crimea before being forced to flee, is creating an information centre `Voice of Crimea’. The centre will cover the developments in Crimea through a web platform and daily TV programme ‘Pod Pritselom’ [In the spotlight], as well as a weekly analytical programme `Voice of Crimea’, broadcast in Russian, Ukrainian and English. EED support comes at an early phase and will complement other start-up funding.