Russian blogger called Alushta hell
While travelling over the Crimean cities, the Russian blogger Ilya Varlamov strongly criticized the resort Alushta, which, in his opinion, “embodied all the worst that could happen with the former Soviet resort” for 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He wrote about this in his blog.
“Alushta is a resort-dust, resort-dystopia. There are beaches, but you want to die on these beaches, everything that could be destroyed and disfigured was destroyed and disfigured here. There is nothing good at all in Alushta. This is no overstatement. If Adler seemed to be hell for you, then you will realize after Alushta that it was only the gate to hell,” Varlamov reflects.
To confirm his words, he offers the photos of the city, where the Soviet buildings are found side by side with rare new buildings and “apartments” for tourists, rusty fences coexist with destroyed piers on the Alushta embankment.
Rotunda in Alushta
Alushta embankment
View of the Alushta embankment
Alushta pier
Cafe in Alushta
Alushta palaces and huts
Another bank lost license in Crimea
The Bank of Russia revoked the license for banking operations and introduced a temporary administration for the JSC “Smartbank”, which had its offices in Simferopol and Sevastopol. The press service of the Central Bank informed about that.
According to the Central Bank, this decision was taken because the bank didn’t implement the federal laws regulating banking activities as well as due to its high-risk credit policy.
“The JSC “Smartbank” conducted a highly risky credit policy associated with the placement of monetary resources in low-quality assets. In this case, the capital adequacy of the bank declined to critical limits. In addition, the bank didn’t comply with the requirements of legislation in the field of counteraction to legalization (laundering) of proceeds of crime and the financing of terrorism in terms of timely and qualitative submission of information to the authorized body,” the statement of the press service of the Central Bank says.
As on March 1, 2016, the “Smartbank” ranked 378 by total assets in the banking system of Russia.
Restrictions on Ukrainian music imposed in Crimea
Ruslana Lyzhichko at the concert in England. Photo from press service
It was forbidden to play the songs of some Ukrainian artists for Crimean radio stations. In particular, Jamala, Ruslana, Oleg Skrypka and his “Vopli Vidopliasova” were banned, the OpenDemocracy journalist, who could communicate with the local radio journalists, reports.
“For example, it is completely forbidden to play Jamala – it is the ban of our chief editor. Nevertheless, people ask about that. Moreover, with her current hit “1944”. Ruslana is not allowed because of Euromaidan, “Vopli Vidopliasova” – because of the same reason. It is not allowed to play “Warriors of Light” by “Lyapis” – it was a hymn of Maidan,” the producer of the “More” radio station Anastasia Silina says.
According to her, the Ukrainian music is still in demand while being no less than a fifth part of all radio orders.
“The most popular songs, of course, are the songs of the band Okean Elzy: “Bez Boyu”, “Ne pytai”, “Vse bude dobre” – we play them many times every day. Old songs are very popular – “Chervona Ruta”, “Cheremshyna”,” the producer summed up.
