Amid the ongoing logistical and energy crisis on the occupied peninsula, the group of “speaker” Vladimir Konstantinov, which the Kremlin “authorized” to “prepare for the September Duma elections,” by early August had adopted a position…
The logistics and energy crisis on the occupied peninsula is giving rise to certain tragicomic episodes, situations that are rather embarrassing for the aggressor’s propaganda machine.Among others, Roberto Lelli, once an “icon” for Russian media,…
In recent days, we have seen a sharp and painful reaction from the aggressor, including Crimean “talking heads” of the occupiers, to the new, 21st sanctions package introduced by the European Union on July 23.The…
Since mid-July, the occupation “Sevastopol press” has suddenly decided to discuss the future development of Mount Tavros in Balaklava, located above the Tavricheskaya Embankment, which is being “fruitfully developed” by the clan of Arkady and…
In mid-July, the occupiers announced a “renewal” of the so-called “civic chamber” of Crimean collaborators. Since 2014, this structure had been “continuously headed” by Alexander Formanchuk, the former head of the ideological department of the…
On July 16, the Moscow Patriarchate announced a “leadership change” in the monasteries of occupied Sevastopol.These changes boil down to the dismissal of Hegumen Matthew (Ilya Samokhin), “the abbot of the St. George Balaklava Monastery…
On 16 July, the European Court of Human Rights published Judgment in the case “Bazhenov and Others v. Russia and Ukraine” that concerned the “cancellation” by the Russian “authorities” of the applicants’ titles to plots…
On July 13, the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) published the communication in cases 21414/18, 21897/18, 22001/18, and 22002/18 against Russia, where applicants Viktor Novytskyy, Gennadiy Otychko, Ruslan Skrypnyk, and Sergiy Kalinichenko were the…
By mid-July, a scandal was brewing in the aggressor-controlled media surrounding the online community “Empire of Geese,” once founded by cover band musicians Alexei Kuzmin and Viktor Postnyi from the Moscow region.Ekaterina Mizulina, a “child…
On July 9, ODIHR OSCE published the Report on violations and abuses of international humanitarian, human rights, and criminal law related to the militarization and indoctrination of Ukrainian children by Russia, prepared by professors Hervé…