Start reading here Protecting and ensuring rights of Crimeans The Public Prosecution Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea that was restored on the mainland is the most active agency dealing with problems of rights violations on the occupied peninsula. One of the most important focus areas of the supervisory agency was initiating criminal…
The territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has been occupied by the Russian Federation for more than two years. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens called “internally displaced persons” on the mainland left the peninsula in this period. There are still hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens, who did not overwhelmingly support the annexation…
High prices, low wages and broken roads – all these problems of occupied Crimea seem small in importance as compared to the medical care. Crimeans couldn’t imagine these terrible things even in a nightmare: free Russian medical care was practically inaccessible to them. Medical facilities without medical workers The mass exodus of staff from…
Start reading here Crimean vineyards The overall area of Crimean vineyards is about 32 thousand hectares (area of vineyards in Russia is about 60 thousand hectares). However, only 16 thousand hectares of them actually crops. Crimea cannot display past crops after the annexation: while 95 thousand tons of grapes were harvested in 2013, in 2014…
The Russian annexation caused irreparable damage to the wine industry of Crimea: once world-famouswine brands of the Ukrainian peninsula are now referred to as ‘wine drinks’, famous fortified Crimean wines are removed from production because they don’t comply with the Russian standards and the vintage wines are sold out. Crimean ‘wine drink’ Crimean wineries…
On August 21, the Olympic Games, in which Crimean athletes took part, were officially closed. However, this year these athletes represented different teams – from Ukraine and the Russian Federation that annexed Crimea in March 2014. The woman-gymnast Anna Rizatdinova has the greatest achievement among three Crimeans participated in the competitions under the Ukrainian flag…
The Crimean peninsula is rich not only with gentle sunshine, warm sea, sandy beaches with healthy air, but also with large reserves of mineral resources, the development of which always brought significant incomes. After the annexation, Russia appropriated peninsula’s natural resources and created conditions for an unprecedented plunder of mineral resources. What resources is the…
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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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Supported NGO «The Crimea Center of Business and Cultural Cooperation «Ukrainian House» within the framework of the project "Return of the Crimea."In the Crosshairs" of the society" by the Media Development Fund of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. The views of the authors do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Government.
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.