People living in Crimea annexed by Russia didn’t participate in the last parliamentary elections, with the exception of internally displaced persons and those Crimeans who came to the mainland with a special purpose to fulfil their civic duty. However, people’s deputies of Ukraine are not in a hurry to fulfil their duty to voters from…
A name of the Crimean capital translated from Greek means “city of common good”, “city-collector”. However, traffic jams, garbage, widespread advertising of drugs and holes on the newly renovated roads are a visiting card of Simferopol today. Transport collapse A few years ago, Simferopol proudly called itself “gates of Crimea”. “My Simferopol – gates…
Recently, representatives of Russian security services distinguished themselves in a special way having reported on the detention of the “Ukrainian subversive reconnaissance unit” that was the second one in three months. The first such “group”, which according to the FSB, “has forced through the administrative border”, was detained in August in Armyansk, the second one…
Having annexed Crimea, Russia promised many things, including new roads for the peninsula. However, it is about three and а half years since the occupation, but not a single kilometer of new road has been built. Capital repairs are also only on the paper, and Russian companies actively pack the Russian billions into the asphalt…
The Ukrainian state is dealing with Crimean problems too slowly and often reluctantly due to its sluggishness, bureaucratic procedures, and sometimes a real sabotage of people in power. Therefore, the civil society activists took the initiative in developing the de-occupation strategy and protecting the rights of Crimean people on both sides of the administrative border. …
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…
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…
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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.