68 offenses recorded in occupied Crimea in March
68 offenses occurred in occupied Crimea in March 2016. The Crimean Tatar resource center reported about that on its Facebook page.
“68 offenses were recorded for a month. The searches, detentions, intimidation and various bans are routinely occurred in Crimea,” the report says.
There are numerous searches of the Crimean Tatars and the attempts of demolition of their houses, “the courts” on recognizing the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people as the extremist organization and on the case of “February 26” (against the Majlis deputy chairman Ahtem Chiygoz and two other activists), the closing of the Lesya Ukrainka museum in Yalta among the registered offenses.
It is noted that the number of offenses is constantly growing.
Law enforcement officials carried out mopping-up operation on market
The Russian law enforcement officials carried out a total document inspection and then conducted some arrests on the markets of occupied Simferopol in the morning. The Crimean lawyer Zhan Zapruta wrote about that on his Facebook page.
“Starting from 9 a.m. they again gathered the people, apparently on grounds of skin color, on the Simferopol markets, many of them had the Russian passports, residence permit documents and registration certificates. They all were brought at the Dekabristov St. (Department for Countering Extremism),” Zapruta wrote.
Eyewitnesses say that people without documents (passports) were detained with threats and insults.
“My wife and I bought two bags of potatoes and were going to the exit from the market. At that moment, the riot police units started to close the exits and ordered the people to wait. Then, after 20 minutes, without explaining something, they started to let people go with the documents provided for inspection. I have also showed my driver’s license and pension certificate, but heard in response that this is not the documents. They needed a passport,” the eyewitness Vladimir Lazarev wrote on his Facebook page.
He also said that the riot police officers didn’t behave correctly – they detained him and put in a special vehicle without any explanations, where he was kept for about half an hour.
“Senator” from Sevastopol: IT-sphere dies in Crimea
Programming as an occupation may disappear in occupied Crimea in the near future. The “senator” from Sevastopol Olga Timofeeva announced that, “Rosbalt” reports.
“The Western customers left Crimea because of sanctions and the large Russian companies didn’t come here. Therefore, the IT-industry is going through a very painful transformation. We can say that the existence of the IT-industry in Crimea will be doubtful in the near future,” Timofeeva said.
In his turn, the Minister of Communications and Mass Media of Russia Nikolai Nikiforov promised to provide the support and new jobs.
He said that while working out the federal target program for the development of Crimea, it was supposed to create a technology park on the peninsula, but this project was not included in the program due to budgetary restrictions.
As the media “Pod pricelom” reported, the “head” of Crimea said that there were the opportunities to develop computer software and create own “Silicon Valley” on the peninsula, but that required the professional staff.
