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…
One of the most serious problems for occupied Crimea is a fresh water shortage. Termination of the Dnieper water supply through the North Crimean Canal immediately after the annexation aggravated the peninsula’s water supply problem dramatically. In 2014, they used the Dnieper water reserves and drilled deep-water wells, in 2015 – heavy rains in May…
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 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…
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…
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted laws that were directed at combating the totalitarian past and had caused fierce disputes both among specialists represented by historians and amateurs – politicians of all the colors of the ideological spectrum and even among everymen at once. If everything is clear with the adherents, then arguments of the…
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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.