Author: Геннадий Борисенко

The keynote of the Crimean mass media was defined by two factors last week: the search for “a fifth column”, introduction of a term “creative class” to the masses and another positive news that “the building will save Crimea” from the speaker-constructor of “the State Council” Vladimir Konstantinov. Against the background of the coming anniversary…

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According to certain mass media of the peninsula, Crimea has been already recognized by Europe and sanctions have been lifted. Also the attention of the Crimean mass media was focused on the salary collapse that always has extraordinary recipes to overcome it: our own Chapaev and tribunal are required. National government press writes about that….

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70s anniversary of the Yalta Conference was a cause of the geopolitical pride of Crimea last week. All the media of the peninsula with one voice concurred that as back then, now it is needed to make arrangements with Russia, of course. There will be a secretary Ira, saving the peninsula from secret services in…

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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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Adoption of new rules of real estate registration as well as drawing-up of passports remains the toughest challenge in Crimea. Neither interference of the main defender of all Russian elderly ladies Aksenov nor dashing “harassments” of self-defense volunteers helps to solve it. Moreover, the queues to the cadaster agency began to bring a good profit….

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Renaming of the Ukrainian theatre, dissolution of the Ukrainian gymnasium in Simferopol, pulling down of Ukrainian monuments and struggle with its symbols are the fight of occupation authorities against external evidences of the Ukrainian heritage in Crimea. But the authorities understand perfectly well that the main fight is for people’s minds. And it is not…

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Any kind of authorities imply imperative mood of life. The Crimean authorities imply the imperative mood of Moscow’s life. On the verbal level of the Moscow’s caretaker of Crimea Sergey Aksenov the imperative mood has become a matrix of public administration, and created an image of an honest landlord, a fair and strict ruler. This…

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The banking credit payment issue disturbed the sleep of many Crimeans who believed that the life in Russia would write off all debts owed to Ukraine. But an insinuatingly-threatening voice of a bill collector reminded: “Pay off your debts and sleep tight!” Probably, the Crimean “Premier” Sergey Aksenov who knows more than average debtors was…

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Unlike the special presidential vote when almost all candidates for presidency promised to bring Crimea back, elections to Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine changed the focus. Now representatives of ATO are on trend. As for candidates from Crimea, they are the smallest group of deputy contenders. About 6000 candidates for deputy’s seats were registered in the…

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Higher education of new converted Crimea is still working the way it was usually done in Ukraine. In spite of the existence of own Ministry of Education and Science in Crimea, for more than 20 years, its higher education system was entirely formed and fully integrated into the Ukrainian one. After the occupation of the…

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