Crimea

EMPR continues Video Chronicles ”Occupied Crimea”. Discover Russian army criminal actions at the Ukrainian territory – Crimea peninsula as of March 1, 2014.

The second occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation on 27 February 2014 is illegal and will be never recognized. This opinion was expressed by the representatives of Crimean Tatar community in Turkey on 8 February 2015 in Ankara, official site of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People reports with reference to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey.

February 6, Crimean Supreme Court decided to leave Deputy Chairman of Crimean Tatar Mejlis Akhtem Chiygoz in pre-trial detention centre till 19 February, krymr.com reports.

It's been only three days since so-called 'Crimean police' raided Crimean Tatar Channel ATR on 26 January. Today so-called 'investigation authorities' detained deputy Chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis Akhtem Chiygoz, 15minut.org
reports.

Statement of ATR Deputy Director General on Information Policy Lilya Budzhurova in respect of the police raid on ATR channel in Simferopol.

26 January, special police forces arrived to Crimean Tatars channel "ATR" in Simferopol. Armed men wearing masks surrounded the channel's office and started ransack, krymr.org reports.

20 January, on the Day of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, IDPs from Crimea came to the Russian Embassy in Kyiv to remind that Crimea is Ukraine, hromadske.tv reports.

In Sevastopol, someone has brushed out eyes of Vladimir Putin drawn on a huge graffiti on the wall of a house, krymr.com reports.

Near Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, activists celebrated birthday of political prisoner Crimean activist Kolchenko, illegally kept in Moscow detention centre, Hromadske.tv reports.

Partiotism still exists in Crimea. Amazing proof was received by 24 News Channel.

More than 1 million Crimeans are pro-Ukrainian, Crimean activist Yelizaveta Bohutska, who had to leave peninsula due to pressure, believes.