Opinion


We got used to think in terms of black and white. For example, let us consider refugees from the Donbass. If they support Ukraine, they come to Ukraine. If they support Russia, the DNR and the LNR, then they go to Russia, including to Crimea. However, there are unusual situations.   A rather big amount…

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The Crimean Tatar issue has never lost its importance in the peninsula. Mass return of people happened in the 90s of the last century. And it happened with difficulties: there were settlement problems, conflicts with the authorities and inhabitants of the peninsula. But things worked out more or less for a couple of decades: the…

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The May 9 parade has always been almost the main celebration for Sevastopol. There are a large number of visitors from Ukraine, Russia and other countries, who believe that one should visit it at least once in a lifetime. By now, there are few veterans left alive, even children of war columns thinned out significantly….

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The last current week of the Verkhovna Rada turned out to be productive not because of the quantity of the adopted law drafts but because of their significance and also it demonstrated the enforcement of the President’s positions that turns the parliament into an obedient tool for solving of corporate interests. On March 17, deputies…

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Crimea was, is and will be Ukrainian. We will get it back. We have already started the work on getting everything back and it will be ours soon.  I don’t know what exactly will be ours, but more likely the Ukrainian politicians will give master classes in inspirational speeches. And in reading mantras. Speaking of…

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Today one of the burning subjects is support of socially active population represented by the small and medium-sized business. The head of the NGO “The All-Ukrainian organization on the IDPs’ affairs” Aleksandr Melanchenko said what migrants-businessmen and the authorities of Ukraine should do today.   In one of your interviews you said that migrants-businessmen had…

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Once when I was a child, I heard two mysterious words “the dead season” for the first time. Some old lady said these words on the wet November embankment in Yalta. They stuck in memory and each time when I came on the South Coast of Crimea in late autumn or winter, I felt the…

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Archbishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate Clement speaks about the time-schedule of the church re-registration in accordance with Russian legislation, sharply increased cultural function of the UOC-KP and delayed fight with the Moscow Patriarchate. “Some representatives of the Crimean authorities have already claimed that they would decide which confessions are traditional…

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Stanislav Krasnov is the commander of the battalion “Crimea” who was proactively involved into Euromaidan events. He thinks that the story of his moving to Kiev, the creation of the battalion and participation in the war is worthy of detective novels. He led the local organization of the “Svoboda” party in Simferopol but left this…

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The head of All-Ukrainian organization “Don’t be indifferent!”, author of projects directed to support the Ukrainian language, literature and history Oksana Levkova who visited more than 3 thousand Ukrainian schools told about the educational and cultural policy in Crimea, Donbas and the movie “Holodny Yar” Society reacted positively towards the release of “Holodny Yar” movie. …

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