The Ukrainian state’s strategy concerning the more than 2 million citizens who remain in Crimea is this: Ukraine considerers all of them its own citizens, despite that fact that the lion’s share of these people was forced, under...
Last Wednesday, Putin gave a speech to a crowd of cheering supporters in the Crimean city of Sevastapol. He praised them for voting to become part of Russia four years ago. “With your decision, you restored historical justice which was...
Volodymyr Balukh, the Crimean activist who flew the Ukrainian flag over his house in Russian-occupied Crimea, has gone on a termless hunger strike. The Crimean farmer whom the Russian occupation authorities in Crimea accused of storing...
Read also: Crimea’s occupied cultural heritage Among the illegal activities in Crimea, the prosecutors mentioned the following suspected crimes: 7,500 archaeological artifacts now cannot be preserved after Russia’s Ministry of...
On 16 March 2014, Russia established its illegal rule in Crimea by holding a so-called referendum. In the summer of 2013, the last summer before its occupation, the peninsula was one of the favorite resorts for Ukrainians. Four years after...
It is an unfortunate fact that many governments misuse anti-terrorism laws against human rights defenders. Yet, the extent to which these laws are applied by the Russian Federation against those guarding human rights in Crimea has reached...
Despite the initial silence around these deaths in the Russian media and a significant understatement of losses, the news from Syria is probably beneficial to the Kremlin (this is, perhaps, the reason for Russia’s eventual recognition of...
On 16 February 2017, the Supreme Court of occupied Crimea sentenced Ukrainian taxi driver Andriy Zakhtey to six and a half years in jail. He was accused of aiding supposed Ukrainian “saboteurs” who Russia’s FSB said had planned to...
The British journalist Madeline Roache, who wrote about human rights in the post-Soviet space, especially the political abuse of psychiatry and political prisoners, was fined by the Central district court in Simferopol, occupied Crimea....
“I call on the international community to exert pressure on all forums, including bilateral negotiations with Russia, so that the Kremlin allows an international observation mission to work in Crimea. Today, there are no international...
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other hand, is rampant in all its forms in dictatorships. These definitions may be relevant in a black and white world; in...
