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Off-channel water reservoirs of the Eastern Crimea are full at least by one third, Kerch.FM informs. In particular, from the beginning of current year the total volume of water pumped into the off-channel water reservoirs of the Eastern Crimea reached 15.7 Mio cu. m., including 7.4 Mio cu. m. that were pumped to the Feodosia…

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Population growth is registered in Sevastopol due to the Russian elderly, Sevastopolstat informs. In particular, according to the statistics, population size in the city increased almost by 100 thousand people within 2 years after the annexation and reached a shade over 421 thousand people as of July 1, 2016.  According to the statistics service staff,…

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Massandra winery sold 7.5 thousand bottles of vintage wine in the first half of 2016. The winery press-service informs about that. “Production we sell as vintage wine is rare wine that cannot a priori be cheap. It ran the gantlet of history, among which there were evacuation, earthquake, two world wars and “period of oversell”….

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38 paintings by the famous marine painter Aivazovsky were taken from Crimea to the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow at the All-Russian exhibition. RIA Novosti informs about that citing the “Ministr” of Culture of the peninsula Arina Novoselskaya. “Thirty-eight works by Aivazovsky were sent with all conservation pledge agreements and insurances in Moscow to the Tretyakov…

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The Russian blogger Ilya Varlamov published online the thoughts of his friend, who described all the “horrors” of having a vacation on the South Coast of Crimea, concerning the resort Yalta. A certain Nariman, who is, as Varlamov said, better known as Abu (Dvach), found only three advantages of spending a vacation in Yalta: a…

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Crimea experiences a milk and dairy products shortage. Occupants bring them from the Krasnodar Krai. As the press service of the Crimean “parliament” reports, the “chairman” of the State Council’s Committee on economic, fiscal and tax policy Igor Lukashev informed about that. “By the way, Crimea experiences an acute problem of dairy products shortage, we…

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There are water reserves enough to supply only for one and a half month in the reservoir serving Feodosia.   The branch ‘director’ of the “SUE RC “Voda Kryma” Andrey Chimpoyesh reported about that, Kafanews informs. According to him, there are a little more than 8 million cubic meters of water in the Feodosia reservoir. The…

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Sand from dikes enclosing burials of harmful substances is sold in occupied Crimea.  The RG newspaper informs about that. Production wastes of the Kamysh-Burunskyi iron-ore plant have been buried in repositories of Eastern Crimea. Today, there are thousands of tons of iron-ore production sludge accumulated on the area, which is larger than several football fields….

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Crimean ‘authorities’ reported that more than a million tourists have already arrived to the occupied peninsula. We tried to find them on embankments and beaches of resort towns.   A report on the number of tourists in Crimea is represented with photos taken with webcams broadcast screenshots. Photographs were taken on June 14 in the period…

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The Sevastopol ‘court’ ordered the Crimean Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) to vacate some of church’s premises and pay a fine.  The Archbishop Kliment of Simferopol and Crimea told about that to the Golos Kryma information agency. The Sevastopol Court of Appeal delivered this judgement and obliged the Crimean Diocese of…

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