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As currency crashes and products, goods and services become more expensive, in Ukraine there is a tendency of irritation and direct non-acceptance of the problems of IDPs. The coordinator of the initiative Crimea SOS Tamila Tasheva announced that at the press-conference in Kiev.    During the two and a half months – from January 16…

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There is traffic congestion for departure at entry-exit checkpoints on the administrative border with the temporarily occupied Crimean territory. The State border guard service of Ukraine informs about that.  “The reasons for such traffic congestion are low checkpoint handling capacity and slow customs processing of vehicles by the Russian side. So, for example, today cargo…

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The pro-Russian newspaper “Krymskaya Pravda” is holding an opinion poll “How would you answer the questions of the Crimean Referendum today?” on its webpage right now. Most of respondents would agree for the broad autonomy within Ukraine. Thus, 65% (1295 people) out of 1997 respondents, who took part at the survey, would vote for the…

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Three Simferopol activists have been detained because of Ukrainian flags on the meeting in honor of Taras Shevchenko’s birthday. The activist of Crimean Euromaidan and forced migrant Lyuba Kalmakova informed about that in social networks. “Right after the event was over, the organizer Leonid Kuzmin approached representatives of the police to ask if everything had…

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Sevastopol businessmen raised concerns about the nationalization processes initiated by “the authorities”. “The chairman” of the Budget Committee of the Sevastopol Legislative Assembly Vyacheslav Aksenov informed about that. “I had a meeting with Vyacheslav Ivanovich Gorbatov on Monday. He is the head of our Sevastopol All-Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, who said that the…

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Ukrainian property owners file claims in Russian courts because of nationalization of their property in the territory of Crimea, the newspaper Izvestiya informs. In particular, Russian courts of arbitration received claims seeking to review the nationalization of the sanatorium-resort complex “Aivazovsky” near Alushta, owned by the businessman Sergiy Taruta, the nationalization of recreational house “Massandra”…

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A picture of the president Vladimir Putin sitting bare-chested on a woodpecker and a weasel appeared in the Network.  Initially, a photographer Martin Lemay depictured a flight of a weasel mounted on a woodpecker. According to the photographer, together with his wife they were walking along the Hornchurch Country Park, when the woman noticed some…

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Crimean Maidan activist Aleksandr Kostenko, who was detained on February 5, has informed he has been tortured in the Simferopol detention facility. It is stated on the website of the Crimean Field Mission on Human Rights. Aleksandr Kostenko, who is currently in the Simferopol pretrial facility, wrote an open letter, where he stated about constant…

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The State Fiscal Service (SFS) records the incidents of the rubles smuggling out of Crimea. The online media Delo informs about that. Thus, on February 25, the Kherson Customs of the SFS found undeclared currency at the customs post “Kakhovka”. When a HYUNDAI car running from Crimea to mainland Ukraine was getting through the customs,…

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A combatant of the “Azov” regiment Danyyil Novitskyy expressed his opinion that Russia would return Crimea but it would be in terrible condition in the interview for the program “Crimea. Time of occupation”. This is why Ukraine will have to invest tremendous funds for reconstruction of the peninsula. “We will not return Crimea by means…

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