Why is the Kremlin taking Ukrainian political hostages? | VIDEO
The Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has been sentenced to 20 years in Russian jail for resisting the occupation…
Browsing Category
Crimea
564 posts
All the latest news about Crimea, occupied by Russia.
Hitler’s anschluss and Putin’s: Similarities and differences
Seventy-nine years ago today, Adolf Hitler issued the law on the unification of Austria and Germany, an event…
Mother of Kremlin’s hostage visits occupied Crimea to hug tortured son
The Ukrainian political prisoner Yevhen Panov has seen his mom Vira for the first time since Russian security…
Meet Mykola Semena, the Crimean journalist prosecuted for disagreeing with Putin’s landgrab
Russia’s attack against those opposing the illegal annexation of Crimea is not surprising—after all, Moscow is experienced in…
Remember the Crimean Tatars jailed for resisting Russian occupation
On February 26, Ukraine observed the Day of Crimeans’ Resistance to the Russian Occupation. That day, a march…
The Bolbochan raid: How Ukrainian troops captured Crimea 100 years ago
– Salaam Aleikum! Don’t shoot! Glory to Ukraine! They moved forward and stood under the only lamp…
Turkish government warns Putin: Crimea is not yours
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a press conference in Kyiv that his country does not recognize…
Ukrainians in Crimea: Six sanctions for refusing a Russian passport
What is life like for Ukrainian Crimeans who have refused to take Russian citizenship, who have not yet…
Ayshe Seitmuratova – a Crimean Tatar heroine at 80
A nation and those who care about it should know its heroes: and for Crimean Tatars, one of…
Crimea’s water troubles
The Kalinina farm collective near Pervomaisk, northern Crimea, was busy with seasonal workers loading sacks of cabbages, or…
Escalating repressions in occupied Crimea: Russia detained key defense attorney
On Wednesday, 25 January, 2017 in Russia-occupied Crimea, the Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Nikolai Polozov, the legal…
PACE calls on Russia to release Sentsov and other Kremlin hostages
On 24 January 2017, he Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted resolution #2141, which calls to protect Ukrainian…
Full text of Ukraine’s case against Russia in UN court
Ukraine institutes proceedings against the Russian Federation and requests the Court to indicate provisional measures In the late…
Moscow is trying to destroy the Crimean civic nation, Shtepa says
Even as Moscow seeks to impose a civic national identity on the various nations of the Russian Federation,…
“Convicted” Crimean prisoners will be sent to correctional labour centres in Russia
Statement published on the website of the Sevastopol City Court, Crimea: “According to amendments to the Criminal Code…
UN officially recognized Russia as an occupying power in Crimea
The Russian Federation is officially recognized as an occupying force by UN. On 19 December 2016 the resolution initiated…
Russian occupier of Crimea threatens to repeat one of Stalin’s most barbaric acts in 1944
Natalya Kryzhko, a member of the Russian-organized and imposed “parliament” in occupied Crimea, who is upset by Crimea…
The longer Russia occupies Crimea, the more likely Russia will disintegrate
Yesterday, Heorhiy Tuka, Ukraine’s deputy minister for the affairs of the occupied territories, said on 112 Ukraina TV…
Ukrainian military experts: Russia wants the world to see Ukraine as a “terrorist state”
Ukrainian military experts assert that the accused could not be members of any Ukrainian special services. Former Deputy…
Hague Court rules against Moscow on Crimea, so Moscow withdraws from Rome Agreement
Prosecutors of the International Criminal Court in the Hague have posted on the website of the court a…