Start reading here Those who chose Russia Crimean athletes who chose the Russian passport along with the Russian sports took this step for various reasons – hoping to have a more successful career, not wanting to leave a coach or Crimea. Nevertheless, the most of them do not hide their mercantile considerations: athletes’ incomes…
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By Sergey Marchenko The wealth of the Crimean land is not limited to the sea, mountains, forests, healthy air and fragrant fruits. Crimean athletes contributed to the bank of the USSR awards and then brought many medals, including the Olympic ones. People from Crimea continue to defend the honor of Ukraine in international competitions after…
By Olga Efimova Start reading here Crimean Scythian gold Today, among all the Crimean cultural values, Ukraine is more likely to return the “Scythian gold” – a collection of Crimean values of the Scythian period that was transported as part of the Ukrainian exposition at the exhibition “Crimea: the gold and secrets of the…
By Olga Efimova Probably, it is difficult to find another such area in Ukraine, where many peoples and civilizations left their marks. There was a large variety of nations at different times – Tauri, Scythians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Genoese, Tatars… Every nation left a small or large piece of its world and culture on the…
By Sergey Marchenko Along with the Crimean mineral resources extracted on a massive scale by occupants, the Crimean forests are also cut down – the number of trees there is decreasing with each passing day. The villagers cut down the trees for firewood and owners of construction companies to build hotels, apartments or cottages. Moreover,…
There is a new restriction among a wide range of illegal restrictions and systematic violations of human rights for political reasons in Crimea – a so-called “List of organizations and individuals, on which there are evidences that they are involved in extremist activities or terrorism”. The Federal Financial Monitoring Service of Russia (Rosfinmonitoring) makes this…
July 28 will become the “Black Thursday” for Crimea and a range of Crimean and Sevastopol officials. ‘Crimean Federal District’ doesn’t exist any more – Putin included it together with Sevastopol to the South Federal District whereby he downscaled the political status of Crimea. “In order to improve effectiveness of the federal authorities I…
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…
Read the beginning of the article here “Crimea is ours” but it is better to go on vacation to Cyprus In spite of ‘flag-waving’ and calls to go on vacation to ‘our’ Crimea, the Russians are not in a hurry to go to the peninsula. Although, according to the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center’s survey,…
Unique natural and climatic characteristics provide Crimea with a resort reputation since Soviet times. The tourist flow on the peninsula didn’t stop even during the difficult 1990s. The Crimean tourist business is facing, perhaps, the most challenging time: the Ukrainians don’t go to the peninsula and the Russians can’t provide a number of tourists necessary…