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…
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. …
High prices, low wages and broken roads – all these problems of occupied Crimea seem small in importance as compared to the medical care. Crimeans couldn’t imagine these terrible things even in a nightmare: free Russian medical care was practically inaccessible to them. Medical facilities without medical workers The mass exodus of staff from…
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…
Any changes in society are reflected in the language. The occupation of Crimea by Russia significantly influenced the peninsula’s language, where new words (neologisms) appeared. They reflect both the social and political changes that took place on the peninsula and, in fact, the Crimeans’ and often the Russians’ attitude towards them. “The eighty second”…
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…
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,…
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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.