Society


There is the war going on in Donbass for a year, according to the data of international organizations, the number of the deceased military has reached 6 thousand people and the system of granting aid to their families still works only partially and not for everyone. “Pod Pricelom” tried to figure out how to confront…

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Ukrainian authorities have been dealing with the issue of decommunization of the society for a long time: they started with the court process to ban the Communistic Party of Ukraine, then they added the 8th of May – Remembrance and Reconciliation Day to the list of holidays (besides that, the Victory over Nazism in Europe…

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At the end of 2014 the online media “Pod pricelom” started a mini-cycle “Three migrant’s fates”, where forced migrants from Crimea representing different nations tell stories of their life that was changed by the events of that time.    Andriy Nochkin, who is a chemist by profession, a Russian by birth, a Ukrainian at will,…

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Vladimir’s story Just one month and three offices that accepted documents in Crimea (then their number was increased to 8 – Editor’s note) were allowed to make the renunciation of the Russian citizenship. I made a principled decision not to change my citizenship and documents. I sent my documents with a list of enclosures at…

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Natalya’s story   Why did I renounce the Russian citizenship? It is because I don’t want to be a citizen of another state. I have my citizenship – Ukrainian. I don’t need any other. If I needed it, I think, I would go to Russia or another country and obtain it there. It is a…

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Pavel’s story  I had two main reasons to renounce the Russian citizenship at that point of time – it is my child and ties with Ukraine (I mean everything by that: relatives, friends and unwillingness to be closed). If you watch the Russian aggression to smaller countries, it is easy to imagine that this state…

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Olga’s story I didn’t have doubts regarding the Russian citizenship renunciation. It wasn’t even a choice for me. I love my country and my nation and believe that we are bound to succeed, so I couldn’t go against my heart and take part in meanness and treachery. I don’t collect citizenship and passports. I was…

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Some days ago, it was one year since they started to accept applications for Russian citizenship renunciation in Crimea. Queues, a lack of necessary information, numerous certificates, threats directed against them are the things that Crimeans, who refused to receive a Russian passport, had to face with. Someone was lucky – they could obtain a…

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The modern rank and leading role assigning system in the Ukrainian army is based on getting the higher education in respective educational institutions. However, it does not contemplate with the present realities. War barks up the wrong tree and it turns out that it isn’t easy to manage on a battlefield without combat experience. What…

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On April 1, the world’s only TV-channel broadcasting in the Crimean Tatar language ATR has been shut down.  It would be possible to qualify this fact as a joke, but Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (Roskomnadzor) that refused to accept application for reregistration of the TV-channel a couple of times,  would hardly…

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