Elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine have started. At 8 a.m. by Kiev time election districts, where the most responsible citizens had already casted their votes for formation of the new Verkhovna Rada, have been opened. Temporary residing in sanatoriums in Kiev’s outskirts Crimean migrants demonstrate an average attendance but a high motivation since…
Unlike the special presidential vote when almost all candidates for presidency promised to bring Crimea back, elections to Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine changed the focus. Now representatives of ATO are on trend. As for candidates from Crimea, they are the smallest group of deputy contenders. About 6000 candidates for deputy’s seats were registered in the…
Expected low attendance of Crimeans for the elections and a lack of Crimean candidates in party lists is a phenomenon that deserves a special attention. In XXI century the peninsula became the first part of our country where elections will not be held, before Crimea only Chernobyl was left without electorate and now it is…
Higher education of new converted Crimea is still working the way it was usually done in Ukraine. In spite of the existence of own Ministry of Education and Science in Crimea, for more than 20 years, its higher education system was entirely formed and fully integrated into the Ukrainian one. After the occupation of the…
The government, deputies and candidates for deputies don’t need them even for PR – they are out of trend. They don’t burn tires or throw deputies into dumpsters. Their weapon is thin pickets with self-made posters and their protection is civil organizations and volunteers. They are not worriers but victims of undeclared war. Victims are…
On July 15 civil organizations from Crimea held a roundtable discussion in Verkhovna Rada where they initiated creation of ministry of forced migrants. On July 17 the government claimed about creation of Civil Service for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol and temporary displaced individuals. However, the appropriate resolution No.297 regarding its creation saw the…
Verkhovna Rada, Crimeans On July 15 civil organizations from Crimea held a roundtable discussion in Verkhovna Rada where they initiated creation of ministry of forced migrants. On July 17 the government claimed about creation of Civil Service for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol and temporary displaced individuals. However, the appropriate resolution No.297 regarding its…
Saying that the annexation of Crimea ruined many lives is as much as to say nothing. But contrary to popular belief, immigrants (“internally displaced people”) and political prisoners are not those people who were hit by it the most but it is those who will know about current events only when they become older. The…
Co-head of the Coordinating Council of internally displaced persons from Crimea Andriy Shchekun considers the resolution of the government that foresees a monthly addressed allowance for IDPs from the temporary occupied territory of Ukraine and antiterrorist operational areas a publicity move. Commenting on this situation, Andiy Shchekun claimed: “Authorities demonstrates populist’s slogans. No one has…
While evidently overstating, Crimean statistics happily reports that 98% of Crimeans have already become owners of Russian passports. Really a lot of residents of the occupied peninsula had to take “red books” but not because they wanted it very much or they dreamed to become citizens of Russia all their live. They did it in…
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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.