Only civic journalism can prevent Crimea’s total isolation. That’s why Russia is attacking it
The peninsula had disappeared from the first pages of international media outlets long ago. Ukrainian journalists rarely travel…
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Crimes of the Russian occupation regime in Crimea
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Faces of the Crimean Solidarity group who Russia baselessly arrested as “terrorists”
On 27 March, in its largest raid yet, Russian special services tore into the homes of several dozen…
Russia arrests 23 Crimean Tatars after largest raid ever in occupied Crimea
At about 6 AM on 27 March, Russian security forces raided more than 20 houses of Crimean Tatars…
Since Anschluss, Moscow engaging in slow-motion deportation of Crimean Tatars, Kashapov says
When Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars in 1944, he loaded all of them on trains in the course…
It matters profoundly what ‘Crimean Tatars’ are called, Belitser says
Moscow has made a concerted effort to present the Crimean Tatars as simply a branch of Tatars who…
Crimea’s Russians who backed Anschluss now turning against Moscow, Vasiliyev says
Many ethnic Russians who lived in Crimea before the Anschluss considered themselves more Russian than even those in…
Russia may kill disabled Crimean Tatar with “most absurd” show trial yet
The 57-year-old Crimean Tatar activist, who had for 18 years suffered from numerous health conditions, was apprehended at…
Learn Russian with Euromaidan Press: send holiday greetings to the Kremlin’s Ukrainian hostages
This is the fourth year we're inviting you to join the holiday letter-writing campaign to the Ukrainian hostages…
Deaths will exceed births in Crimea every year through 2035, Russian occupiers say
The Crimean Statistical Agency (CSA), a branch of the Russian occupation authorities, says that deaths will exceed births…
“It’s doesn’t matter when you die, but how and for what.” Sentsov’s address at Sakharov Prize ceremony
On 12 December 2018, the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was awarded the EU Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom…
Putin’s approach to Ukraine threatens entire international order and must be reversed, Skobov says
As hard as it is to imagine in the 21st century, Vladimir Putin is perfectly prepared to go…
Putin treating captured Ukrainian sailors the way Stalin would have, Eidman says
The international community must do everything possible to save the Ukrainian sailors Russian forces took prisoner because Vladimir…
Putin has crossed a Rubicon – Will the West respond?
Vladimir Putin has now done openly what he has denied doing in the past and what most Western…
Russia takes 24 prisoners of war after attacking Ukrainian ships in Azov, televises “confessions”
After the Russian attack on Ukrainian vessels near the Azov Sea on November 25, Ukraine introduced martial law…
Seven messages from Mustafa Dzhemilev on his 75th Birthday
Mustafa Dzhemilev, who has been fighting for the rights of the Crimean Tatar nation for six decades against…
Russian authorities dig up ancient Muslim necropolis to build highway in occupied Crimea
Some of the human remains will be re-buried, others will be sent to research institutions. Vesti.Krym TV channel…
Russians moving into occupied Crimea now form one-fifth of its population
Since the Russian occupation of Crimea began four years ago, the combination of its longtime residents being forced…
38 of the 46 Ukrainian Orthodox churches in Crimea forced to close by Russian occupiers
Archbishop Klyment of Simferopol and Crimea says that once autocephaly is granted to Ukraine, the Russian occupation forces…
‘Undoubtedly Russia has put nuclear weapons in occupied Crimea,’ Felgenhauer says
Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent Russian military analyst, says that even though Moscow will not confirm or deny the…
‘The disappeared’ – the hidden part of Russia’s hybrid deportation of the Crimean Tatars
Today as they have done every August 30, the International Day for Remembering Those Who Have Disappeared, Crimean…