Last week the Ukrainian Cultural Centre started the project to collect Ukrainian books in Simferopol. It is planned to create the First Ukrainian public library on the peninsula. “Today Crimea is sorely in need of dictionaries, reference books, encyclopedias, technical and popular scientific publications, the literature of Ukrainian classic and modern authors,” the activist Leonid…
The Investigative Committee of Russia in Crimea conducted a search in the house and the working place of the head of the Russian Federal Tax Service in Crimea Nikolay Kochanov and his son’s house as well. RIA Krym informs about that. “As a result of the search, the documents and items, which are material to…
There is a lot of rubbish accumulated in the Simferopol park of the 50th anniversary of the USSR located at the Zaleskaya St. The Simferopol “State Council’s” deputy Yuriy Zhdanov informed about that, Krym.Media reports. “The park is fully littered with rubbish. Soon half-meter rats will run instead of children there,” the deputy said. According…
The Regional Directorate of the FSB detained the head of the “Ministry of Industrial Policy” of Crimea Andrey Skrynnik. The minister is suspected in the implication in stealing of state property, Kryminform reports. According to the agency, Skrynnik is suspected in complicity in stealing of property and property rights of the Bakhchisaray district consumer society…
As the press service of the company “Crimean Railways” informed, the volume of freight and passenger operations of the Crimean railway decreased to 11% over the past year, RIA Novosti reports. The yearly volume of work performed by the Crimean railway amounted to 40% in all-freight operations and 21% – in passenger transportation compared to…
1.1 million tourists visited Crimea since the start of the year. The “chairman” of the “State Council committee on sanatorium-resort complex and tourism” Aleksey Chernyak informed about that, Krym Media reports. According to him, the peninsula is ahead of the expected results for the tourist flow. “The South Coast provides large figures, the West and…
Status of occupied territories will be enshrined in the new Constitution. The MP, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy and Justice Vadim Denisenko informed about that, the Analytical News Service reports. “At first we will adopt the constitutional changes in the area of decentralization. To my mind, we will do that before…
“Crimean department of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation” supports organizing the new Kazantip – the youth festival of electronic music Befooz – on the peninsula. The department’s press service informs about that. “Crimean Drugs Police never objected to organize any musical youth festivals on the peninsula. If everything is within the…
In Kerch, the wing of one of flight stairs of the Great Mithridates Staircase, which is an architectural historic building in the city center, collapsed on Friday evening, June 26. The collapse of masonry structures happened during performance about the King Mithridates that was held out in the open air, Krym.Realii informs. According to the…