Large queues at the Crimean “border checkpoints” are a result of unskilled work of customs office heads. On March 16, the “head” of Crimea Sergiy Aksenov informed the journalists in Simferopol about that. He said that the “government” of Crimea monitors the situation on the “border” between the peninsula and Ukraine every day….
The truce reached in Minsk continues to be technically observed but weapons don’t stop to be used and the number of victims increases. The OSCE mission is not able to control the withdrawal of troops. Russia continues to provide support for separatists. Ukraine is forced to beg the EU and the UNO for peacemakers. …
The “Soviet of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea” signed a memorandum with representatives of whole sale and retail trade, and good manufacturers, according to which “everyone is going to follow principles of conscientiousness by making and executing of contracts”. Press-service of the “Ministry of Industrial Policy of the Republic of Crimea” informs about that….
In the center of Simferopol, about 2 thousand schoolchildren participated in a costume musical parade dedicated to the anniversary of the “referendum”. KrymMedia informs about that. On the Lenin Square the groups of the Palace of children and youth creativity arranged a dancing and musical flash mob, after which they released balloons into the sky….
Human rights activists of the initiative “The Crimean Human Rights Field Mission” stated that the first opening of the criminal procedure under the article 280.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation regarding journalists of the “Center of Investigative Reporting” is a direct interference into freedom of expression. According to the opinion of the…
In the morning of March 14 it was reported that activists Aleksandr Kravchenko and Leonid Kuzmin were detained by the Simferopol “law enforcement agencies” and the “self-defense force”. Besides them, a journalist of a polish TV channel Polsat News in Moscow Tomash Kulakovsky was also detained. They were sent to a “district police station”, where…
Detention of the journalist and editor of the Center of Investigative Reporting Natalya Kokorina became the pick-of-the-day on March 13. On the eve of this event the international human rights organization “Reporters without boarders” stated that one year after the Russian annexation of Crimea there are virtually no independent media left in the peninsula, and…
The leaders of countries that introduced sanctions against Crimea should apologize. The “chairman” of the State Council of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov said about that at the press-conference in Simferopol, Kryminform reports. Konstantinov called the sanctions humiliation and the future visit to Crimea that, in his opinion, seems to be possible – immoral behavior. “The attitude…
The State Security Service of Ukraine detected about 600 anti-Ukrainian and separatist groups in social networks. Most of them (around 80%) are administrated from Russia, Crimea and Donbass. The chief of Informational Security Department of the State Security Service of Ukraine Vitaliy Nayda told about such groups as “Antimaydan” that was created in the social…
Leonid Kuzmin, who organized the event in honor of Taras Shevchenko’s birthday in Simferopol, was sentenced to 40 hours of corrective work for using the Ukrainian symbolism during the event. QHA informs about that. Three witnesses were heard in the case of Kuzmin. One of them, a police officer, said that the detainee kept in…
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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.