Statistics show that 13-15 million Ukrainians and their descendants, that is approximately one third of the population of modern Ukrainian state, live abroad. Most of them live in Canada, the US, Brazil, Argentina and others. Before Maydan, the Ukrainians abroad thought of their motherland several times a year – on the anniversary of the Holodomor…

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Mass communications are in dispiriting conditions in Crimea. Mass media have always been under constant pressure before and after the referendum. Human rights activists announced about threats of physical violence addressed to journalists, ruins of the offices and public abolishment of journalists from the informational field already many times. In period from March to December…

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The national movement of the Crimean Tatars addressed the Russian authorities, protesting against the decision of the Crimean authorities to erect the monument to I. Stalin as a part of “the Big Three” (together with F. Roosevelt and W. Churchill) in Yalta. Krym.Realii reports about that. “We make a strong appeal to the leadership of…

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The community “Crimean Diaspora” offers to help to 400 children-migrants from Crimea and the East of Ukraine. Within the framework of the project “Support of children-migrants from Crimea and the East of Ukraine” with the support of the Canadian fond and local initiatives, the “Crimean diaspora” offers humanitarian aid to families that live in Kiev…

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Fetishes, which gave the Crimeans the aspiration to die in Russia, such as pensions, salaries and petrol prices, lost their mystical touch last week. Mass unpaid social benefits and total mess-up made local media to find the guilty one. It is commonly known that a guilty person in Russia always was a petty official and…

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The prime-minister of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Medvedev signed a decree about appointment of the company Stroygazmontazh as the main contractor of the bridge construction over the Kerch Strait. It is reported by UNIAN referring to the Russian Komersant. However, the company’s chairman, general contractor and billionaire Arkadiy Rotenberg calls the bridge his last big…

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Online shopping platform eBay announced the inability to organize appropriate operation of the service in Crimea. TASS informs about that. “As a global platform for e-commerce, eBay company has to be able to offer its clients the trouble-free service on all markets, where we operate. We regret that at that moment we are not able…

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Today the “prosecutor” of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya sent the crime investigators of the peninsula 6 materials for initiation of criminal cases for extremism under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.    At the same time, the Ukrainian Institute of Research of Extremism presents the research results for 2014, according to which Crimea was in…

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Refat Chubarov, the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people expressed concerns about fate of the deputy head of the Mejlis Akhmet Chiygoza, who has been detained today.  He wrote about that on his page in Facebook. “Just like you all, I worry about Akhmet Chiygoza. Together with colleagues in Kiev we are…

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The number of people that have been evacuated from the territories that are beyond the control of Ukraine during waging the ATO reached 20 thousand. The chief of the voluntary organization “Ukrainian Boarders” OP “Slavic Heart” Natalya Kirkach announced about that during the press-conference. “We are one of the groups working on the uncontrolled territories….

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