How falling for Putin’s Crimea narrative will feed Russian expansionism
In summer 2017, the German Bundestag election campaign was rocked by an unexpected statement from the leader of…
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All the latest news about Crimea, occupied by Russia.
Russian occupiers now hold at least 70 political prisoners in Crimea
To mark International Human Rights Day, the Crimean Human Rights Defense Group has released an infographic on the…
Russian occupiers making Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar ‘outcast’ languages
Since the 2014 Anschluss, Moscow has often tested out policies of repression on the Ukrainian peninsula that it…
How Putin’s Crimean bridge grew over 2016-2017 – satellite images
The construction by Russia of the Kerch Strait (Crimean) Bridge goes along according to the plan and to…
German Siemens continues to collaborate with Russian companies
“Several companies are currently conducting major competitive tenders with those turbines, and Siemens participates in these tenders,” said…
German DHL continues to operate in occupied Crimea
The German logistics company DHL continues to operate through so-called “partner service points” in Kerch, Sevastopol and Simferopol…
Possible name change for Crimea Kyiv’s response to ethnic claims in Western Ukraine, Abdulayeva says
A draft law that would label Crimea not “the Crimean Tatar Autonomous Republic” but rather “the Crimean Tatar…
Crimean Tatar missing since 2014 found dead in occupied Crimea
The family of Lemar Aliadinov, a Crimean Tatar who went missing in occupied Crimea in 2014, was informed…
Putin’s approach to Crimean Tatar leaders like Brezhnev’s toward Soviet refuseniks, Portnikov says
Vladimir Putin’s freeing and then expulsion abroad of Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz, two leaders of the Crimean…
Sobchak’s statement on Crimea has profound consequences for the future, Portnikov says
Kseniya Sobchak’s statement that Crimea is Ukrainian under international law may not matter too much in the short…
Sobchak says ‘Crimea is Ukraine. Period’
Kseniya Sobchak, the Kremlin-promoted “sparring partner” for Vladimir Putin in the upcoming presidential elections, says that “Crimea is…
First recruits from Crimea and North Caucasus republics deployed in 2017 Russian draft
The recruits will travel to their stations by road, rail and air. Military and civil aircraft will…
‘Russian Security Agencies Said Increasing Recruitment of Ukrainians’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Russia brags about “Russian” Crimea in DPRK atlas where South Korea “annexed” by North
The Russian Embassy in the North Korea in their 12 October post on Facebook proudly reports that Crimea,…
Inside occupied Crimea’s crackdown on independent journalism
Mykola Semena was accused by the Russian authorities of issuing public calls to violate Russia’s territorial integrity. In…
‘Russia Disappearing from Radar Screen of Young Ukrainians’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Four Crimean Tatars detained in new wave of religious persecution
Contents Victims of the Russian “police of thought” Nothing compromising about Tablighi Jamaat in Crimea and Russia, experts…
‘UN: Human Rights in Crimea Have Deteriorated Since Occupation’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Crimea suffering from ‘East German Syndrome,’ Moscow scholar says
There have been almost as many premature deaths in Crimea as a result of rapidly rising mortality rates…
“See you in the Hague!” Last word of Crimean Tatar leader Umerov on Russian show trial
The lawyer Nikolai Polozov, who had been illegally removed from the trial, said at the press conference that…