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…
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All the latest news about Crimea, occupied by Russia.
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…
UN committee adopts resolution recognizing Russia as occupying power in Crimea
73 states voted in support of the document entitled "Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of…
Expert community outraged over new FSB arrests in Crimea
The letter, signed by over 100 experts from 11 countries, says that the three detained were permanent residents of…
Italian delegation to occupied Crimea: between politics and business
On 14-16 October 2016, an Italian delegation consisting of 18 politicians and businessmen visited Crimea illegally annexed by…
Russia bans Crimean Tatars by banning the Mejlis
On Thursday, 29 September 2016, the hearing of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the complaint…
Don’t forget those kidnapped in occupied Crimea
On September 27, a chilly autumn day, several Crimean activists once again protested at the Embassy of the…
260 foreign ships docked at occupied Crimea, violating sanctions
As many as 260 ships have violating Ukrainian law and international sanctions by docking at the ports of…
Kremlin’s double standards on language issues in post-Soviet space continued
More than most governments, the Kremlin behaves in exactly the same way it routinely accuses other countries of…
Elections in the occupied territories delegitimized Russia’s Parliament
On 18 September 2016, one of the most illegitimate elections to the Russian Federation Duma (Parliament) took place. As predicted,…
Crimea’s occupied cultural heritage
The Russian occupation of Crimea affected all areas of life on the peninsula. The situation with violation of…
Who is Ilmi Umerov, the Crimean Tatar Russia so fears?
After Russia illegally annexed Crimea in March 2014, the local officials were offered to pledge allegiance to the…
Stalinist times are returning in Russian-occupied Crimea, Poroshenko says
The incarceration of Ilmi Umerov, one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar movement, in a psychiatric hospital…
Ukraine publishes video proving Kremlin directed separatism in eastern Ukraine and Crimea
On 22 August 2016, Ukraine’s General Prosecutors Office (GPO) released a video it says proves that top officials of…
Political scientist: the war is due to Ukraine’s weak language policy in Crimea and Donbas
Stanislav Fedorchuk, political scientist and internally displaced person from Donetsk, believes that the war in Ukraine is a…
Ukrainian political prisoner Yuriy Ilchenko escapes from Russian-occupied Crimea
When one summer morning Sophia came to work, she saw a lean man at her office door. For…
Yuriy Ilchenko: Escape from a prison in occupied Crimea
“Have you seen The Shawshank Redemption? This is a similar story, but this one is true!” says Alim…
Publicity needed to prevent torture of Ukrainians detained in “Crimea saboteurs” case
On 10 August 2016, Russia's FSB announced that the special services of the Russian Federation detained a Ukrainian citizen…
Document suggests “terror shootout” in Crimea internal Russian conflict
The gunfire at the border administration of occupied Crimea [on August 7] was staged by drunken military contractors…
A timeline of Russia’s Crimean “terror” games | Infographics
August 1. Media crackdown. Independent media covering Crimea, including RFE/RL’s Crimean service, are blocked on the peninsula. August…