Society


Recently the historians gathered together to discuss the problems of Crimea. And though the conversation wasn’t based on the stereotyped “Whose Crimea is?”, there was a conflict of three essentially different world-views – philosophical, scientific and pragmatic – during the round-table discussion. Having talked about the question “How to understand the history of Crimea”, the…

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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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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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Fetishes, which gave the Crimeans the aspiration to die in Russia, such as pensions, salaries and petrol prices, lost their mystical touch last week. Mass unpaid social benefits and total mess-up made local media to find the guilty one. It is commonly known that a guilty person in Russia always was a petty official and…

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It’s been a year since the occupation of Crimea. And almost as much time has passed since the outbreak of war. The number of forced migrants will reach a million soon but their problems are just rolling up. Georgian experts and also the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Ukraine suggest solutions for some…

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On Friday the Ukrainian State Inspectorate for Safety of land transportation informed on its website that passenger transportation has been suspended.   It has been said that bus services had been canceled “because of radicalization of the situation in Autonomous Republic of Crimea and invasion of the Ukrainian territory by armed groups, extremist-minded persons and…

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There will be no trains to Crimea from December 27. The Crimean Field Mission informs about that on its page in Facebook.   The Ukrainian Railways limit route of trains of Crimean direction to Novoalekseevka and Kherson stations. Trains that will depart beginning from December 27 will come to the stations mentioned above. This information…

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This week Ukraine celebrates Dignity Revolution anniversary. The head of Mejlis of Crimean Tatar people and deputy candidate who entered the Verkhovna Rada through the list of Presedent’s party Refat Chubarov recalled about the first “Maydans” in Crimea during the meeting with students of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. He assessed events that happened…

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Marines from Feodosiya are presently stationed in Mariupol. For the last time they have been on the native peninsula in March when they were rapidly moving to the mainland after the referendum. They have been sent to Nikolayev and then to Mariupol to protect their motherland. Many of them have houses and flats in Crimea…

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