Politics


The last week was full of international events. The USA and Europe showed solidarity. The EU implemented new sanctions against Russia. However, the meeting of the Normandy quartet leaders in Minsk and signing the agreement regarding Donbass became the culmination.   Merkel and Obama hold consultations regarding Ukraine On Monday, February 9, the chancellor of…

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According to certain mass media of the peninsula, Crimea has been already recognized by Europe and sanctions have been lifted. Also the attention of the Crimean mass media was focused on the salary collapse that always has extraordinary recipes to overcome it: our own Chapaev and tribunal are required. National government press writes about that….

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Ukraine is caught in a very complicated geopolitical, economic, humanitarian situation now. How is it possible to get out this crisis? How is it possible to build a new state under conditions of the war? How is it possible to survive at all? These questions became crucial during the public discussion “In what way can…

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The Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic became a member of the club of unrecognized states in the beginning of the 1990s. The declaration of sovereignty, the military conflict with Moldova and the brotherly help of Russia preceded all this. However, the main part in the Moldova-Transdniestrian conflict played not the ethnical factor, but the fear of approaching…

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Ukrainian parliamentarians worked tirelessly during this week – they reviewed as many as 49 draft laws. Several of them became symbolic for all Ukrainian citizens and some of them – long-awaited for people living in Crimea and Donbass as well as for migrants from these occupied territories.    On Tuesday, February 3, the high spot…

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On January 4, the Ukraine Crisis Media Center presented the initiative Free Crimea created with the support of the Canadian Embassy in Ukraine and the company Berta Communications. As the organizers say, their main goal is to resist to the Russian aggression by informing the society. The political expert Taras Berezovets, who is the project…

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On the background of the USSR collapse, the “Parade of Sovereignties” of the independent and not really formations begins: according to the results of the referendum of 1991, the Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic (that existed from 1921 till 1946) was reconstructed instead of the Crimean region, and the Abkhazian Autonomy that was a part of…

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Mass communications are in dispiriting conditions in Crimea. Mass media have always been under constant pressure before and after the referendum. Human rights activists announced about threats of physical violence addressed to journalists, ruins of the offices and public abolishment of journalists from the informational field already many times. In period from March to December…

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Today the “prosecutor” of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya sent the crime investigators of the peninsula 6 materials for initiation of criminal cases for extremism under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.    At the same time, the Ukrainian Institute of Research of Extremism presents the research results for 2014, according to which Crimea was in…

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It’s been almost a year since the annexation of Crimea. Ukraine and the rest of the civilized world haven’t recognized “the historical reunion” of the peninsula with Russia.  However, despite the multiple official statements of the Ukrainian politicians that “Crimea have been, is and always will be Ukrainian”, yet a strategy of its deoccupation has…

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