The report calls the occupied Crimean peninsula not just one of the world’s largest military bases but also a powerful element of the Russian defense-related industry. “By now, the Crimean enterprises are almost fully...
On May 18, Crimean Tatars and their supporters around the world marked the 75th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of their ancestors from their homeland, an action in which tens of thousands died in Central Asian exile and from which...
When Ukrainian prosecutors released audio intercepts that appeared to show the direct involvement of Kremlin top advisor Sergey Glazyev in Russia’s takeover of Crimea and pro-separatist rallies in eastern Ukraine in August 2016, they...
The Ukrainian government has been working quietly but consistently through international courts to “return Russia to the framework of international law,” Deputy Foreign Minister Olena Zerkal says, an effort that has not attracted as...
Two days ago, the Latvian Saeima became the first foreign parliament to adopt a resolution recognizing Soviet treatment of the Crimean Tatars as an act of genocide, an action in advance of the 75th anniversary of their deportation in 1944...
In late April, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a simplified procedure allowing residents of the so-called “DNR/LNR republics” to obtain Russian passports. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called this step...
The peninsula had disappeared from the first pages of international media outlets long ago. Ukrainian journalists rarely travel for stories from Crimea. The only ones who stir up the information wave come from inside the occupied peninsula...
On 27 March, in its largest raid yet, Russian special services tore into the homes of several dozen Crimean Tatar families in occupied Crimea. Read more: Russia arrests 23 Crimean Tatars after largest raid ever in occupied Crimea Sons,...
However, Mr. Kiselyov’s statements were picked apart already on the following day in an article titled “Dmitry Kiselyov’s Three Fakes at the Anniversary of Crimea’s Annexation,“ published by the independent Russian outlet The...
Ahead of the 5th anniversary of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, Russian state-funded RIA Novosti published an article under the headline, “German Media Outlets Report on the ‘Renaissance’ of Russian Crimea,” quoting...
Is the conflict domestic or international? In December 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Ukraine-related part of their “Report on Preliminary Examination Activities” has repeated the...
