Hate language is used to cultivate hatred for Ukrainian language in Crimea
Occupation authorities use the hate language to create an atmosphere of hatred to all Ukrainian things in Crimea. The head of the Crimean human rights group Olha Skrypnyk said about that during the presentation of the analytical report “Crimea: Ukrainian identity is banned”.
“Today we can say that the Russian and Crimean mass media, which are controlled by the government, created the atmosphere of intolerance and even hatred to various demonstrations of the Ukrainian identity in two years. This includes the attitude to the Ukrainian activists and the Ukrainian culture and the Ukrainian language. This hate language is used not only in everyday life, but it is also used in the government’s speech. For example, Poklonska (the so called prosecutor of Crimea – editor’s note) said that they tried “not the person but the idea” during the trial of the Euromaydan activist Oleksandr Kostenko.” In other words, today in Crimea each idea that doesn’t correspond the idea of the Kremlin and says about international standards or standards of human rights or about the unity of Ukraine is tried”, Skrypnyk said.
Sevastopol “deputies” abandoned direct elections of “governor”
Deputies of the Sevastopol “Legislative Assembly” refused to support the draft law on direct elections of the city “governor”, the press-service of the “Legislative Assembly” reported.
On March 1, the Sevastopol “Legislative Assembly” received the draft law “On amendments to the Charter of the city of Sevastopol”, which defines the regulations for the direct elections of the city governor, for consideration.
“The Governor of the city of Sevastopol shall be elected on the basis of equal and direct elections by secret ballot for a term of five years. One and the same person can not be elected to the position of the Sevastopol governor more than two times in a row,” the draft law says.
According to the results of voting, 13 deputies took a stand for this proposal, 3 – raised their voices against this proposal and seven deputies – abstain. The voices of two thirds of deputies, that is 16 people, are required to adopt this draft law.
Crimean was fined for photo with Ukrainian flag
The Crimean court fined the pro-Ukrainian activist Veldar Shukurdzhiyev 10 thousand rubles (3,400 hryvnas at the exchange rate of the NBU – Editor’s note) for a photo with the Ukrainian flag on the central square of Simferopol. The Crimean wrote about that on his Facebook page.
“The decision of the Simferopol Central District “court” imposed a fine of 10 thousand (rubles – Editor’s note) in the case of August 11, 2015,” the activist wrote.
He said that he wasn’t going to pay the fine since he didn’t consider himself guilty and was ready to appeal the decision.
“There will be an appeal, but whatever the result, I have no intention to pay the fine. I don’t want to do that since I AM NOT GUILTY! I HAVE THE RIGHT to make a photo with the Ukrainian flag near the Lenin monument,” Shukurdzhiyev wrote.
On August 11, 2015, Veldar Shukurdzhiyev made a photo with the Ukrainian flag on the Simferopol central square and was detained by the police.
Crimean water-storage reservoirs are filled only by half
The filling volume of Crimean water-storage reservoirs ranges from 46-60%. The press-service of the “State Committee” on Water Resources and Land Reclamation of Crimea informed about that.
In particular, the amount of water in the off-channel reservoirs is 46.2% of their volume.
“The total volume of water supplied in the off-channel reservoirs amounted to 4.5 million cubic meters in 2016. Currently, all localities of the Republic of Crimea are provided with water in full. We continue to fill the water-storage reservoirs,” the head of the “State Committee” Igor Vail said.
The filling volume of natural flow water reservoirs is 163.4 million cubic meters or 64.6% of the project volume.
As a reminder, the Crimean “authorities” introduced the high alert regime to prevent an emergency resulting from the threat of the fresh water shortage on the peninsula.
There are 15 natural and 8 off-channel water-storage reservoirs in Crimea.
