Police detained activist Vladimir Shipitsyn during a regular Saturday protest in support of CrimeanTatars, organised by Strategies-18 in St. Petersburg, Russian mass media inform. Vladimir waswearing a T-shirt with tamgha, and holding a Ukrainian flag…
NATO should be strengthened and money channelled at deterrence, including of Russia, US DefenceSecretary Dr. Mark T. Esper said, as reported by DOD Public Affairs Office. He also mentioned Russia’soccupation of Crimea and military activity…
Lawyer Rustem Kiamilev says his defendant in the second Simferopol Hizbut-Tahrir Case EskenderSuleymanov has been kept with a tuberculosis cellmate for more than two months. ‘Eskender Suleymanov told me he had been kept with a…
Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzheppar met with the EU Ambassador to Ukraine MattiMaasikas to discuss, in particular, the situation in Russia-annexed Crimea, the MFA press officereports. ‘Emine Dzheppar informed the EU Ambassador about…
U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE James S. Gilmore III called on Russia to release all political prisonersheld in Russia and occupied Crimea. Talking about occupied Crimea, he mentioned Soviet persecutions and Stalin’s repressions. ‘We recall…
Unique Nimetska Balka [German Wash] in Kacha used to be one of the best and most popular wild beaches near Sevastopol. Unfortunately, this one-of-a-king natural site has been completely ruined. Workers from a construction site…
Ukraine will regularly draw UNESCO’s attention to violations in occupied Crimea, Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister, Chairperson of the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO Emine Dzheppar says. ‘Under the conditions of Russia’s illegal occupation…
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced Russian President Vladimir Putin had cancelled his trip to occupied Crimea to be held on 16 July. Vladimir Putin was expected to participate in the keel-laying ceremony of two naval…
Ecological collapse threatens lakes Chokrak and Kivsh and buffer lakes near Saky in occupied Crimea. The foul odour from the shallow lakes spreads for many kilometres.Locals also say the water colour has become unnatural. It…
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission reports the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) and other law enforcement agencies in Crimea apply tortures to force detainees to testify. The publication of the UN…