Crimea
It is necessary to make an amendment to Russia’s constitution on protecting the country’s integrity so that any draft laws related to the return of Crimea to Ukraine become unconstitutional. This was stated by the co-chair of the working group to draft proposals on amending the constitution and chair of the Federation Council committee on constitutional law and state building […]
The once prosperous Crimean seaports are on the brink of survival, or probably even past this brink. This disastrous situation has been caused by Putin’s “epoch-making construction” – a bridge across the Kerch Strait. According to the Information Resistance, these are the arguments provided by the so-called “head” of the Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, in his petitions to the Kremlin. As […]
The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People considers newly appointed Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal’s words about supplying water to Crimea a stab in the back
It has been repeatedly stated that Russia occupied not only the Crimean peninsula (27,000 km²), but also about 100,000 km² of the Ukrainian sea around Crimea, which is equal to the area of almost 4 estimated peninsulas!
Commander of the Ukrainian Naval forces provided actual data on the composition and armament of the Russian troops in Crimea
Ukraine has forwarded another notice to the International Criminal Court concerning the forcible displacement of civilians from the occupied Crimea to the mainland of Ukraine
The European Union will expand its sanctions in response to the "local elections" held by Russia in occupied Crimea last September
Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov said that the march to the annexed Crimea scheduled for May 2 does not require the consent of the Ukrainian authorities because the action is legal
Russian authorities prosecuted residents of occupied Crimea on trumped-up terrorism charges, Human Rights Watch says.
“Me and my people are not terrorists,” Crimean Tatar activist made his final statement in Russia's court. Russia's state prosecution sentenced defendant in the so-called terrorism case Crimean tatar activist Enver Seitosmanov to 17 years in the colony with a strict regime.
Special representative of the OSCE Chairperson in the TCG Martin Sajdik refusedto express his position on the occupation of Crimea by Russia at the Salzburg Europe Summit.
Simferopol’s detention center in occupied Crimea contains three times as many people as are allowed under the construction project. This was told by the Alushta “ex-deputy” Pavel Stepanchenko, who was released from prison after three years of detention. According to Stepanchenko, in 2016 the Simferopol detention center held 2,500 prisoners. Later their number grew a little less. He also says […]