After the occupation, Crimea turned into the territory, which is full of fear and where there are no mechanisms to protect rights of people, who continue to resist the occupation authorities. This is the taking points the authors of the publication “The Fear Peninsula: Chronicle of Occupation and Violation of Human Rights in Crimea” expressed…
The Arbitration court of Crimea transferred the building of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People located in Simferopol to the state. The first “vice chairman of the Committee for Protection of Cultural Heritage” of Crimea Vyacheslav Zarubin informed about that, TASS reports. “Last week we won the first-instance court case on the confiscation of…
Visa and MasterCard international payment services still don’t work in Crimea. RIA Novosti (Crimea) informs about that. Yesterday the mass media reported that cardholders can use their cards in the occupied peninsula after launching the Russian national payment system. The correspondents decided to check this information and tried to withdraw money from ATM of the…
The chairman of the Committee on Culture and Cultural Heritage of the “State Council” of Crimea Svetlana Savchenko called to respect the St. George ribbons. She announced that during the press conference in Simferopol. “There is no need to string the St. George ribbon on the jeans hip pocket. Sometimes we let patriotism get as…
Difficulties with crossing the administrative boarder between mainland Ukraine and Crimea appeared as on April 29. KrymSOS informs about that. In the morning of April 29, there were approximately 200 cars at the checkpoint “Chongar”, the length of the queue was about 3.5 km. In general, crossing of the “border” (of two checkpoints) takes…
The intermountain impoundment that was the main source of water for Simferopol and Sevastopol for the period of draught (this is where the water from the Dnieper was pumped to) swallowed. The newspaper “Svezhaya gazeta” reports about that. As one of the officials informed, at the present the operating personnel is out of employment and…
Crimean “prime-minister” Sergey Aksenov instructed to suspend construction works for the holiday season in the towns on the sea, near the health resort facilities. The press-service of the Crimean “Council of Ministers” informs about that. “It is necessary to stop all construction activities near embankments and recreation facilities. This order refers to all towns…
It is promised to compensate up to 40% of the purchased accommodation costs for young families in Crimea. The “minister of construction and architecture” of Crimea Sergey Kononov informed about that at the session of the “Council of Ministers”, the press-service of the Crimean “government” reports. These amends are possible owing to the fact that…
Foreign banks do not perform exchange payments of citizens that are registered in Crimea. The Russian publication “Vedomosti” informs about that with the reference to a representative of one of the payment service provider. If a bank sees in the SWIFT network that a person, who sent a payment, was registered in Crimea, it does…
In Crimea unidentified persons torched commercial property of the Crimean Tatar entrepreneurs. The coordinator of the Committee on Protection of Rights of the Crimean Tatar People Eskender Bariev informed about that, the media 15 minutes reports. “In the last few days someone torched 7 private commercial facilities: a hotel, café “Ai-Petri”, café “Uyut”, a…
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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.