Ukrainian diplomats are looking for opportunities to bring Russian company Yandex to justice for its activities in the occupied Crimea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine said in response to an inquiry from the […]
19.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Crimean Platform summit with the participation of foreign leaders is scheduled for 23 August 2021, the press service of the Office of the President of Ukraine reported citing a statement by Deputy Head of […]
18.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2020, 16 political prisoners from Crimea were given varying prison sentences (the highest of 19 years), 424 people were deprived of the right to a fair trial and 77 persons were illegally transferred outside […]
16.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The North Atlantic Alliance has seen increased military build-up by Russia, from the High North all the way to the Baltic region, Black Sea, Middle East, and North Africa. NATO is concerned about Russia's expanded […]
15.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered the first judgement in the case Ukraine v. Russia regarding the occupation of Crimea, declaring Kyiv's allegations of human rights violations on the occupied peninsula admissible. Thus, […]
14.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
A Russian court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced three Crimean Tatar Muslims in the case of the Bilohirsk group of Hizb ut-Tahrir. All three men were sentenced to terms in a high-security prison on religious terrorism charges. […]
12.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine is awaiting a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the admissibility of a claim against Russia over an attempt to occupy Crimea in the coming days, Minister of Justice of Ukraine […]
10.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
According to the website of the Office of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, a total of 33,137 people arrived in Crimea as part of the “interregional migration movement” […]
08.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 1 January 2021, Sweden took over the Chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Ann Linde became a new OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for a period […]
02.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
An MEP group sent letters of solidarity to Ukrainian political prisoners in the Russian Federation from the occupied Crimea. They addressed the messages to Remza Bekirov, Osman Arifmemetov, Yevhen Karakashev and Serhiy Filatov. The Crimean […]
01.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2020, Polish special services recorded an increase in the disinformation and propaganda activities of the Russian Federation against Poland. Both traditional and new narratives related to the pandemic and elections in Belarus were used, […]
31.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
About 300,000 Ukrainian citizens were granted passports in the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The deputy prime minister, minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov announced this. […]
29.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ukrainian authorities plan to launch the Crimean platform at the 2021 summit in Kyiv. The Ukrainian foreign ministry head Dmytro Kuleba stated this in an interview. "Via sanctions strengthening we will restrict opportunities for […]
25.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 4 April 2014, at an unscheduled meeting of the Collegium of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu announced his intention to make the industry of the occupied peninsula […]
23.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ukrainian authorities are ready to supply water to the occupied Crimea in tanks as part of convoys controlled by humanitarian missions if the UN and the Red Cross declare a humanitarian catastrophe on the […]
22.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, another 32 vessels have been identified as those that violated the order of entry to and […]
22.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The European Union remains a key partner of Ukraine in counteracting aggression of the Russian Federation, Ambassador of Ukraine to the EU Mykola Tochytskyi said during an online briefing within the conference of heads of […]
21.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Over the past year and a half, the number of articles about Ukraine in Crimean media outlets has decreased threefold, according to a study conducted by the Institute of Mass Information (IMI). The study focused […]
21.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Newly elected US president Joe Biden could take part in the talks in the "Normandy format" and strengthen them. He understands well the difference between Ukraine and the Russian Federation because, before his presidency, he […]
20.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Russian Federation uses the COVID-19 pandemic to intensify the repressive policy in the temporarily occupied Crimea, in particular, the campaign against the Crimean Tatars. The first deputy minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Emine […]
20.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak