Olga Efimova Crimean port industry is suffering significant losses amid breaking economic relations with Ukraine and Western sanctions imposed on the port enterprises of the occupied peninsula. As a result, a cargo turnover is reduced and workers are fired. All this happens amid the pompous reports of the local “authorities” on economic growth and…
Evgeniya Goryunova The shorthand report of the RNBO meeting dated February 28, 2014, where the fate of Crimea was discussed, was declassified in Ukraine. The participants of the meeting offered different options – starting from imposing the martial law to the negotiations with the local “elite”. Could Ukraine at the moment to keep the Crimea?…
Vasyl returned from the hospital to his hometown Rava-Ruska in the Zhovkva district last March. He lost his left leg during the period of service in the ATO zone and had problems with mobility after that – some parts of the body didn’t work properly. Also, in March, Vasyl began to go to the swimming…
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…
The problem of the current state of the Ukrainians on the territory of occupied Crimea was a matter of fierce debate during the round table “The impact of temporary occupation on the Ukrainians of Crimea: assimilation pressure and forced migration” that was held in Kyiv on June 22, 2015. Different expert opinions can be combined…
The Ministry of Property and Land Relations of Crimea initiated an auction, the item of which was the leasing of the current Crimean Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate premise (CD of UOC-KP). The starting price of the premise with a total area of 112.6 m2 located at 17, Sevastopolskaya…
It has been a year since migrants from Crimea had adopted, probably, the historic document – the appeal to the supreme authorities of the country with the request to provide rights of IDPs – during their first all-Ukrainian Congress. What was achieved within one year and what requests remained unfulfilled? What kind of problems did…
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…
Annexation of Crimea is not only the violation of rules of international law, disregard of the territorial integrity of the independent state, but also significant politico-military and economic losses for Ukraine. The Minister of Justice Pavel Petrenko assessed the damage from the loss of Crimea at 1 trillion and 200 billion hryvnyas. However, not everything…
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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.