The trial of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who is accused in Russia of organizing a terrorist group and preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea, has begun in Rostov-on-Don. Sentsov faces life imprisonment, and he himself is confident that the court will “give” him twenty years - that’s exactly how long, according to...
Russian investigators seized documents in the building of the tax service. The reason was the investigation of the embezzlement of budget funds allocated for the establishment of the work of tax inspections in Crimea. First of all, all documentation on contracts with firms performing work for the tax service in Crimea and ...
The Ukrainian authorities have threatened to cut off the electricity supply to the territory of the Crimean peninsula, which Kiev considers illegally annexed by Russia. According to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Energy, the Ukrainian enterprise Ukrenergo warned the Russian side that it would stop supplying electricity from midnight on July 1. In Sevastopol they brought...
The head of the Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights (OSPP), Mikhail Anshakov, appealed to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation demanding a legal assessment of the law “on the annexation of Crimea to Russia.” Anshakov’s like-minded people, Valery Otstavnykh and Konstantin Seleznev, also joined the lawsuit. According to the plaintiff, when...
The US State Department has accused Russia of widespread human rights violations and suppression of freedom of expression. The State Department's new annual report on human rights in the world speaks of the creation of an authoritarian system of government in Russia. “The Russian Federation has a highly centralized, increasingly authoritarian...
On the platform of the online encyclopedia “Wikipedia”, from June 26 to August 31, the competition “Sights of Ukraine: Crimea” will be held. The goal of the project is to increase the number of articles in the free encyclopedia about cultural and historical attractions of the Ukrainian peninsula. The organizers were the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the public organization “Wikimedia Ukraine”,…
The United States, for the first time in history, will deploy heavy weapons, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and artillery, in Eastern Europe. This was stated in Tallinn by US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter at a joint press conference with the three defense ministers of the Baltic countries. “We are temporarily stationed in the countries of Central...
Over the past decade, Russia has shown the greatest departure from democratic standards. This is stated in a new report by the US-based nongovernmental organization Freedom House The researchers also point out that other authoritarian states have resorted to drastic steps to block the formation of new democracies anywhere in Europe ...
Maintaining the peninsula and its inhabitants will become a noticeable “headache” for the Russian economy this winter. Former Minister of Resorts and Tourism of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Alexander Liev described seven reasons why Crimea will return to Ukraine. 1. The reason is political. The world does not recognize the “referendum”.…
The Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights, which became notorious after recommending that people travel to Crimea on vacation under the laws of Ukraine, reported several dozen complaints from Russians who were not issued Schengen visas because people visited Crimea. Ekho Moskvy reports this with reference...