The decision of the US President Barack Obama to extend financial and economic sanctions against Russia and Crimea for one year is politically based and won’t affect the economy of Crimea. The “chairman” of the Accounts Chamber Anatoliy Zaichenko informed about that. “This question should be considered only politically. By making such decision, Washington…
Status of non-recognition brought serious economic problems such as decline in manufacturing output, desertion of agriculturally used areas, drastic reduction of transport connection and external trade, absence of foreign investment to the three republics of the post-soviet space (Abkhazia, Transdniestria and South Ossetia). The very same sad fate is probably waiting for Crimea, which even…
Today in the Moscow’s Basmanny District Court, where another hearing on the Nadezhda Savchenko’s case took place, the pilot has stated that she intended to continue the hunger-strike until a fair trial. UNIAN reports about that. “I don’t stop the hunger-strike until a fair trial,” the pilot announced. Savchenko promised that when the trial restrictions…
A picture of the president Vladimir Putin sitting bare-chested on a woodpecker and a weasel appeared in the Network. Initially, a photographer Martin Lemay depictured a flight of a weasel mounted on a woodpecker. According to the photographer, together with his wife they were walking along the Hornchurch Country Park, when the woman noticed some…
Crimean Maidan activist Aleksandr Kostenko, who was detained on February 5, has informed he has been tortured in the Simferopol detention facility. It is stated on the website of the Crimean Field Mission on Human Rights. Aleksandr Kostenko, who is currently in the Simferopol pretrial facility, wrote an open letter, where he stated about constant…
The State Fiscal Service (SFS) records the incidents of the rubles smuggling out of Crimea. The online media Delo informs about that. Thus, on February 25, the Kherson Customs of the SFS found undeclared currency at the customs post “Kakhovka”. When a HYUNDAI car running from Crimea to mainland Ukraine was getting through the customs,…
A combatant of the “Azov” regiment Danyyil Novitskyy expressed his opinion that Russia would return Crimea but it would be in terrible condition in the interview for the program “Crimea. Time of occupation”. This is why Ukraine will have to invest tremendous funds for reconstruction of the peninsula. “We will not return Crimea by means…
Almost 70% of the Ukrainians think that Crimea is the territory of Ukraine that has been annexed by the Russian Federation. Iryna Bekeshkina, the director of the “Democratic Initiative Foundation named after Ilko Kucheriv”, informed about that during the round-table meeting “Crimea – one year after the annexation. What’s next?” However, the same amount of…
Russia will provide the Black Sea Fleet with warships and submarines in 2015. The head of the information activities office of the Black Sea Fleet captain I rank Vyacheslav Trukhachev informed about that, the newspaper Sevastopolskaya Gazeta reports. Thus, a patrol warship of 1135.6 Project “Admiral Grigorovich”, two new diesel-electric submarines of 636.3 Project “Novorossiysk”…
The meeting of the Verkhovna Rada was arranged for the evening of March 2. The draft laws of the Cabinet of Ministers mainly focused on filling the country’s budget, which already comes unglued, appeared on the agenda. But the deputies failed to start in time: the colleagues of Oleg Lyashko in the Radical Party blocked…
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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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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.