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February 10, the Basmanny Court of Moscow was consider a request of the investigative agencies to extend the detention of Nadiya Savchenko for three more months – until May 13.  “She (Savchenko, – author’s note) will be delivered to the court for direct participation in the court session,” the court spokeswoman Hanna Fadeeva informed. Savchenko’s lawyers…

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The winery Massandra has been seized by the “self-defense forces” of Crimea. An employee of the enterprise informed about that, the Center for Investigative Journalism reports. “The Crimean “self-defense forces” infiltrated the main winery of Massandra. All lodges are blocked. There are the armed people on the territory of the winery,” – the employee informs. …

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On the night of February 10, telephone communications and Internet services belonging to the company Ukrtelecom have been cut off.  Together with it the mobile network operator Trimob shut down. The central control room of the Ukrtelecom branch confirmed disconnection of the communication. “In response, the dispatcher service confirmed disconnection of Crimea from the communication….

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According to the data of sociologists, the attitude of Ukrainians towards Russians and vice versa deteriorated in these latter days. The results of the common project of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and the Russian non-governmental research organization “Levada-Center” confirm this fact. According to the poll’s data, the attitude of Ukrainians towards Russia and…

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The Kiev district court of the city of Simferopol delivered a judgment to arrest Alexander Kostenko, who is suspected of the infliction of bodily injury on an officer of the Crimean Berkut during “mass riots in Kiev” in February, 2014. Kryminform reports about that. Kostenko is accused under the Art.115 of the Criminal Code of…

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Recently the historians gathered together to discuss the problems of Crimea. And though the conversation wasn’t based on the stereotyped “Whose Crimea is?”, there was a conflict of three essentially different world-views – philosophical, scientific and pragmatic – during the round-table discussion. Having talked about the question “How to understand the history of Crimea”, the…

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On February 6, representatives of the Crimean “self-defense” forces banished employees of the Bakhchysarai Consumer Cooperative building, who didn’t let the armed people to the facility of the organization. The Crimea field mission reports about that on its Facebook page. One of the shareholders Anton Levashkin informed Argumenty Nedeli – Crimea that the all the…

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The largest American online store in the world Amazon warns its Crimean customers about the necessity to delete their accounts due to the sanctions implemented by the government of the USA. Otherwise, they will be deactivated compulsorily. “We emailed you because your account on AWS was registered in the region of Crimea. Due to the…

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Almost two thirds of the Russians (67%) oppose the military involvement of Russia into the conflict on the South-East of Ukraine for the purpose to bring the fighting to an end. The results of the survey held by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (APORC) testify that. 20% of respondents supported the introduction of the…

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Ukrainian parliamentarians worked tirelessly during this week – they reviewed as many as 49 draft laws. Several of them became symbolic for all Ukrainian citizens and some of them – long-awaited for people living in Crimea and Donbass as well as for migrants from these occupied territories.    On Tuesday, February 3, the high spot…

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