By Sergey Marchenko The wealth of the Crimean land is not limited to the sea, mountains, forests, healthy air and fragrant fruits. Crimean athletes contributed to the bank of the USSR awards and then brought many medals, including the Olympic ones. People from Crimea continue to defend the honor of Ukraine in international competitions after…
By Olga Efimova Start reading here Crimean Scythian gold Today, among all the Crimean cultural values, Ukraine is more likely to return the “Scythian gold” – a collection of Crimean values of the Scythian period that was transported as part of the Ukrainian exposition at the exhibition “Crimea: the gold and secrets of the…
By Olga Efimova Probably, it is difficult to find another such area in Ukraine, where many peoples and civilizations left their marks. There was a large variety of nations at different times – Tauri, Scythians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Genoese, Tatars… Every nation left a small or large piece of its world and culture on the…
By Sergey Marchenko Along with the Crimean mineral resources extracted on a massive scale by occupants, the Crimean forests are also cut down – the number of trees there is decreasing with each passing day. The villagers cut down the trees for firewood and owners of construction companies to build hotels, apartments or cottages. Moreover,…
There is a new restriction among a wide range of illegal restrictions and systematic violations of human rights for political reasons in Crimea – a so-called “List of organizations and individuals, on which there are evidences that they are involved in extremist activities or terrorism”. The Federal Financial Monitoring Service of Russia (Rosfinmonitoring) makes this…
July 28 will become the “Black Thursday” for Crimea and a range of Crimean and Sevastopol officials. ‘Crimean Federal District’ doesn’t exist any more – Putin included it together with Sevastopol to the South Federal District whereby he downscaled the political status of Crimea. “In order to improve effectiveness of the federal authorities I…
In the first half of 2016, the number of traffic accidents increased by 44.6% in Crimea compared to the same period of 2015. The information-analytical review “Road traffic accidents in the Russian Federation for the first half of 2016” gave this information, RIA Novosti reports. It is noted that the number of road accident victims…
About 30% of Sevastopol road-users have not been registered according to the Russian law and have preserved Ukrainian car license plates. As the city ‘government’s’ press service informs, the ‘Deputy Head’ of the Central Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Sevastopol Andrey Kuznetsov reported that. “According to preliminary information, owners of…
In Russia, tender on construction of a new thermal power station in Taman, which was supposed to supply electricity to Crimea, didn’t take place because of lack of investor applications. The tender failed to take place due to the fear of investors to fall under the EU sanctions, Reuters informs. “From the political point of…
Off-channel water reservoirs of the Eastern Crimea are full at least by one third, Kerch.FM informs. In particular, from the beginning of current year the total volume of water pumped into the off-channel water reservoirs of the Eastern Crimea reached 15.7 Mio cu. m., including 7.4 Mio cu. m. that were pumped to the Feodosia…
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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.