Politics


The new travel destination is planned to be opened in Russia – it is the tourism in the LNR and the DNR. The newspaper Izvestiya informs about that.  As explained by Mikhail Belyi, who is a co-owner of the Megapolis kurort tour operator, it is planned to send a small groups of people for a…

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Austria didn’t let the so called senator of Crimea Olga Kovitidi participate in the meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE. The OSCE PA President Ilkka Kanerva informed the Russian delegation about that, Izvestiya writes. Kanerva informed the State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin that Austria filed a note of protest and won’t let Kovitidi…

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Arrest of the Crimean activist of Euromaydan Oleksander Kostenko in Simferopol on February 8 is violation of the international law. The representative of Euromaydan SOS Oleksandra Matviychuk announced about that during the press-conference. Kostenko is accused of beating a Berkut officer during events on the Grushevskogo Street in last January. “He is accused of throwing…

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Zerkalo Nedeli published a copy of claims regarding the settlement of the situation in Donbass, which have been assigned to the participants of the tripartite negotiation group in Minsk by the representatives of the “DNR” and the “LNR”. Some of the claims are: To provide the full-blast cease-fire from 10 am (Kiev time) on February…

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The so-called prime-minister of Crimea rules out the possibility of the refund for nationalization of Ukrtelecom. Aksenov announced about that during the briefing in Simferopol. “None of the owners, whose property has been nationalized, or in regard of whose property the mandatory buyout took place, can submit any documents proving consignation of any sums to…

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February 10, the Basmanny Court of Moscow was consider a request of the investigative agencies to extend the detention of Nadiya Savchenko for three more months – until May 13.  “She (Savchenko, – author’s note) will be delivered to the court for direct participation in the court session,” the court spokeswoman Hanna Fadeeva informed. Savchenko’s lawyers…

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The winery Massandra has been seized by the “self-defense forces” of Crimea. An employee of the enterprise informed about that, the Center for Investigative Journalism reports. “The Crimean “self-defense forces” infiltrated the main winery of Massandra. All lodges are blocked. There are the armed people on the territory of the winery,” – the employee informs. …

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On the night of February 10, telephone communications and Internet services belonging to the company Ukrtelecom have been cut off.  Together with it the mobile network operator Trimob shut down. The central control room of the Ukrtelecom branch confirmed disconnection of the communication. “In response, the dispatcher service confirmed disconnection of Crimea from the communication….

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The Kiev district court of the city of Simferopol delivered a judgment to arrest Alexander Kostenko, who is suspected of the infliction of bodily injury on an officer of the Crimean Berkut during “mass riots in Kiev” in February, 2014. Kryminform reports about that. Kostenko is accused under the Art.115 of the Criminal Code of…

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On February 6, representatives of the Crimean “self-defense” forces banished employees of the Bakhchysarai Consumer Cooperative building, who didn’t let the armed people to the facility of the organization. The Crimea field mission reports about that on its Facebook page. One of the shareholders Anton Levashkin informed Argumenty Nedeli – Crimea that the all the…

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