Tourists still can’t withdraw money from their bank cards in Crimea, RIA Novosti informs. In particular, Visa and Mastercard cards don’t operate in the peninsula, also there are a lot of difficulties with the system “Pro100”. For example, often credit cards issued by the Moscow bank offices don’t work in Crimea. Crimean banks say journalists…
Many streets of the Crimean capital were completely flooded as the result of heavy rain that battered the city, Krym Media reports. Traditionally, the biggest harm was done at the square near the railway station, where the water level was up to people’s knees and sometimes even up to their waist. Water flooded the car…
Five residents of Sevastopol were tried in absentia for organizing terrorist attacks in Crimea. Hromadske radio informs about that. Convicted persons are football fans of the club “Sevastopol” and left the peninsula before the court proceedings started. “Convicts” themselves are sure that they got a prison term for their patriotism. “I left Crimea because I…
“Public unrest” began among people in the queue on the Kerch Strait ferry line that arose because of the storm. The “adviser to the head of Crimea” on transport Anatoliy Tsurkin informed about that on his Facebook page. Automobilists were filled with indignation at the fact that some people tried to jump the queue. …
Kerch city “authorities” won’t conduct the restoration of beaches that crashed down this year. The “deputy head of the Kerch administration” Vladimir Stupnikov informed about that answering the journalists’ questions, the newspaper “Kerchenskiy poluostrov” (“Kerch peninsula”) informs. According to the official, the funds allocated for shore protection are enough just to watch as the…
The Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) appealed to a range of international organizations (UN, OSCE) and the heads of the states to stop the persecution of the Ukrainians in Crimea, the newspaper “Voice of Crimea” reports. “…on behalf of our religious community and on behalf…
The tourist flow to Crimea was 630 thousand people from January 1 to June 1. The former “Minister of Resorts and Tourism” of Crimea Elena Yurchenko said about that, the press service of the Crimean Ministry of Resorts reports. According to her, a great part of the tourist flow, that is 60%, chose the Southern…
According to Krymstat, since the beginning of the year the price of consumer goods basket went up by 19.5%. Krym Media informs about that. In Crimea, the price of the minimum food basket per person is 3380.08 rubles as of the end of May. This index increased by 2.4% as compared to April. In…
Crimean “authorities” offered business to invest in health resort infrastructure facilities unclaimed among tourists. The state autonomous institution “Property Management Directorate of Crimea” created a list of property of the Republic of Crimea that consists of fifty real estate items: resort and tourist and industrial facilities, the press service of the “Ministry of Economic Development”…
Human rights defenders report about the problem of the compulsory citizenship assignment to the Ukrainian orphaned children in Crimea, more than 4 thousand of whom stayed there at the time of the occupation, the UNIAN quotes the head of the Department for children’s rights, non-discrimination and gender equality at the secretariat of Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner…
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A number of HIV-infected persons is increasing annually by 10-12% in Crimea
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Climent: Moscow Patriarchate tries to take away the building of Ukrainian church in Crimea
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Ukrainian people’s deputies in the struggle for occupied Crimea
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Sevastopol “government”: the level of corruption in the city reached 75%
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“Krymstat”: a third of enterprises in Crimea are loss making
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A “Minister”: Medical centers of Crimea are staffed by doctors only by one third
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In Crimea, the number of road traffic victims increased by 50% over the period of annexation
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The Crimean Centre for Business and Cultural Cooperation ‘Ukrainian House’, founded in 1999 and until recently based in Simferopol, Crimea before being forced to flee, is creating an information centre `Voice of Crimea’. The centre will cover the developments in Crimea through a web platform and daily TV programme ‘Pod Pritselom’ [In the spotlight], as well as a weekly analytical programme `Voice of Crimea’, broadcast in Russian, Ukrainian and English. EED support comes at an early phase and will complement other start-up funding.