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Ukrainian property owners file claims in Russian courts because of nationalization of their property in the territory of Crimea, the newspaper Izvestiya informs. In particular, Russian courts of arbitration received claims seeking to review the nationalization of the sanatorium-resort complex “Aivazovsky” near Alushta, owned by the businessman Sergiy Taruta, the nationalization of recreational house “Massandra”…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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”…

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“The authorities” of Simferopol, Sudak, Feodosia and Armyansk together with the representatives of the Simferopol and Crimean eparchy of the Orthodox Church collected and sent another batch of humanitarian aid to the South-East of Ukraine. The press-service of the Simferopol city “administration” informs about that. “It is extremely important for the administration of the Crimean…

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