Politics


In Crimea, electricity, water and gas tariffs are increased for the population starting from July 1. Gas rates increased by 10% for those consumers, who use less than 6 thousand cubic meters of gas a year, and now amount to 3225 rubles per thousand cubic meters of gas (1213 hryvnyas at the NBU exchange rate)….

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The Investigative Committee of Russia in Crimea conducted a search in the house and the working place of the head of the Russian Federal Tax Service in Crimea Nikolay Kochanov and his son’s house as well. RIA Krym informs about that. “As a result of the search, the documents and items, which are material to…

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The Regional Directorate of the FSB detained the head of the “Ministry of Industrial Policy” of Crimea Andrey Skrynnik.  The minister is suspected in the implication in stealing of state property, Kryminform reports. According to the agency, Skrynnik is suspected in complicity in stealing of property and property rights of the Bakhchisaray district consumer society…

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As the press service of the company “Crimean Railways” informed, the volume of freight and passenger operations of the Crimean railway decreased to 11% over the past year, RIA Novosti reports. The yearly volume of work performed by the Crimean railway amounted to 40% in all-freight operations and 21% – in passenger transportation compared to…

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1.1 million tourists visited Crimea since the start of the year. The “chairman” of the “State Council committee on sanatorium-resort complex and tourism” Aleksey Chernyak informed about that, Krym Media reports. According to him, the peninsula is ahead of the expected results for the tourist flow. “The South Coast provides large figures, the West and…

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Status of occupied territories will be enshrined in the new Constitution. The MP, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy and Justice Vadim Denisenko informed about that, the Analytical News Service reports. “At first we will adopt the constitutional changes in the area of decentralization. To my mind, we will do that before…

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The State Council of Crimea approved the privatization plan of the state-owned property that includes 11 facilities. The relevant decision was taken at the special session of the Crimean parliament on June 26. Three south coast health resorts such as Dyulber, Ai-Petri and Mishor are among the facilities for privatization, e-Krym informs.   According to…

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Citizens of foreign countries will be denied entry to the territory of mainland Ukraine from Crimea, if they came to the peninsula not through the Ukrainian checkpoints. The assistant chairman of the Ukrainian State Border Service Oleh Slobodyan said that in a conversation with TASS. “Foreigners who came to the territory of Crimea through inactive…

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The Ukrainian activist, Crimean Leonid Kuzmin received the warning on the impermissibility of holding any events on the Constitution Day of Ukraine from the Russian prosecutor’s office of Crimea. Kuzmin told about that the online media Krym.Realii.   The document states that “according to available information of the Simferopol prosecutor’s office, protest actions arranged to…

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Five Crimean naval checkpoints are not prepared to take cruise ships. The head of the Rosgranstroy FGKU (State-owned Federal State Institution) Aleksey Shestopalov said that at the press conference, Krym Media informs.  “These reasons are objective and related to the depths and provision of the necessary facilities in checkpoints,” Shestopalov said and added that they…

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