With each passing day, the Crimean peninsula occupied by Russia is becoming more and more a military base – the number of troops and military equipment is increasing rapidly, there is a gradual equipment modernization and the Crimean people have already got used to wake up with the sounds of military aircraft exercises. However, the…
The Crimean theme always was of key importance in the Petro Poroshenko’s political activity, starting from his visit to Simferopol at the very beginning of the annexation and ending with his New Year’s address to the Ukrainian people, when greetings were said in the Crimean Tatar language as well. However, Crimean problematic was almost neglected…
In spite of waiting for manna from “Russo-tourists”, the failed 2014 season forced the Crimean “authorities” to seek tourists in Ukraine. And the “minister” of tourism Elena Yurchenko, who recently spoke about poor “khokhols” who come with their own potatoes and lard, suddenly started saying that Crimea is waiting for Ukrainians going on vacation with…
The central event of international life last week was the Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit, regarding which Ukraine had great expectations, in Riga. However, it was not destined to be realized. Europe still doesn’t decide to introduce the visa-free regime while promising once again that it will be as soon as possible. The issue of the…
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted laws that were directed at combating the totalitarian past and had caused fierce disputes both among specialists represented by historians and amateurs – politicians of all the colors of the ideological spectrum and even among everymen at once. If everything is clear with the adherents, then arguments of the…
Every spring Ukrainian motorists look wistfully at the condition of the national roads that are not always available for comfortable passage after temperature drop, snow, black frost and other weather hardships. Crimean roads have never been an exception but things that happened to them after coming of the Russian authorities had shocked the most reckless…
Some days ago, it was one year since they started to accept applications for Russian citizenship renunciation in Crimea. Queues, a lack of necessary information, numerous certificates, threats directed against them are the things that Crimeans, who refused to receive a Russian passport, had to face with. Someone was lucky – they could obtain a…
The last current week of the Verkhovna Rada turned out to be productive not because of the quantity of the adopted law drafts but because of their significance and also it demonstrated the enforcement of the President’s positions that turns the parliament into an obedient tool for solving of corporate interests. On March 17, deputies…
Status of non-recognition brought serious economic problems such as decline in manufacturing output, desertion of agriculturally used areas, drastic reduction of transport connection and external trade, absence of foreign investment to the three republics of the post-soviet space (Abkhazia, Transdniestria and South Ossetia). The very same sad fate is probably waiting for Crimea, which even…
The meeting of the Verkhovna Rada was arranged for the evening of March 2. The draft laws of the Cabinet of Ministers mainly focused on filling the country’s budget, which already comes unglued, appeared on the agenda. But the deputies failed to start in time: the colleagues of Oleg Lyashko in the Radical Party blocked…
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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.