With each passing day, the Crimean peninsula occupied by Russia is becoming more and more a military base – the number of troops and military equipment is increasing rapidly, there is a gradual equipment modernization and the Crimean people have already got used to wake up with the sounds of military aircraft exercises. However, the…

Read more

Read the beginning of the article here “Crimea is ours” but it is better to go on vacation to Cyprus In spite of ‘flag-waving’ and calls to go on vacation to ‘our’ Crimea, the Russians are not in a hurry to go to the peninsula. Although, according to the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center’s survey,…

Read more

Unique natural and climatic characteristics provide Crimea with a resort reputation since Soviet times. The tourist flow on the peninsula didn’t stop even during the difficult 1990s. The Crimean tourist business is facing, perhaps, the most challenging time: the Ukrainians don’t go to the peninsula and the Russians can’t provide a number of tourists necessary…

Read more

The Crimean peninsula is rich not only with gentle sunshine, warm sea, sandy beaches with healthy air, but also with large reserves of mineral resources, the development of which always brought significant incomes. After the annexation, Russia appropriated peninsula’s natural resources and created conditions for an unprecedented plunder of mineral resources.  What resources is the…

Read more

Crimean ‘authorities’ reported that more than a million tourists have already arrived to the occupied peninsula. We tried to find them on embankments and beaches of resort towns.   A report on the number of tourists in Crimea is represented with photos taken with webcams broadcast screenshots. Photographs were taken on June 14 in the period…

Read more

The Sevastopol ‘court’ ordered the Crimean Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) to vacate some of church’s premises and pay a fine.  The Archbishop Kliment of Simferopol and Crimea told about that to the Golos Kryma information agency. The Sevastopol Court of Appeal delivered this judgement and obliged the Crimean Diocese of…

Read more

Ukrainian border guards imposed administrative sanctions on 253 foreigners for illegal entry to temporarily occupied Crimea in January-May 2016. The press service of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (GPSU) reported about that.  “We imposed liability on 12% more foreigners (253 persons) over 5 months this year than over the past year (225). Most…

Read more

A “club village” will be built at the foot of the Crimean Demerdzhi mountain, where Red Book trees are planted.   The “Primechaniya” informs about that. Local “authorities” expect to resolve the water supply and sewerage problem in the Luchistoye village with the help of this construction. “This project is needed for the development of Luchistoye,…

Read more

Russia stopped funding the construction of a bridge over the Kerch strait.  Forbes informs about that. According to the magazine, the last tranche in the amount of 65.4 billion rubles was transferred to the contractor – the “Stroygasmontazh” company in December 2015. It is impossible to make the payment of 65.4 billion rubles this year…

Read more

Crimean real estate prices in dollars are still falling. Experts of the Domik.ua portal made this conclusion having analyzed real estate market trends for 2015 in Crimea. According to the portal, proposed prices for selling apartments in Crimea reduced by 14.6% from $ 1294 to $ 1105 per 1 sq. m over the last year….

Read more