Contents tagged with crimea
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Turkey does not allow ships from the Crimea into its ports
As reported by Ukrainian TSN news channel, ships from the Crimea are not allowed into Turkish ports. TSN reports that the logistics company confirmed that ferries that arrived from Sevastopol are not allowed to enter the port of Zonguldak. This is not the first time that Crimean vessels were not allowed to moor while boats from Russian regions do not face such problems. The information was later confirmed by the Crimean Maritime Agency.
The director of the Crimean Maritime Agency, Stanislav …
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Two of Akhmetov’s factories confiscated in Kerch
Crimea’s “Council of Ministers” decided to proceed with the compulsory buyout of two factories in Kerch affiliated with Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, reported the Russian newspaper “Kommersant” with reference to sources in the companies’ administration and the Crimean “government”.
According to the publication, on the 6th of March, representatives of the Crimean “government” and the “administration” of Kerch met with employees of the Kerch Switch Plant and the Kerch Metallurgical …
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister: Budapest Memorandum needs to be revised
Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin called on the United States to support the resumption of negotiations between the signatory countries of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 (the United States, Britain, Russia, Ukraine) on the settlement of the situation in the Crimea, annexed by Russia, and the Donbas, while speaking at a hearing of the US Senate Appropriations Committee on "Russian policy and intentions for individual European countries: the example of Ukraine."
We need US …
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18 prisoners from the Crimea will be handed over to Ukraine
Ukrainian and Russian ombudsmen, Valeriya Lutkovska and Tatyana Moskalkova, agreed to transfer 18 Ukrainian prisoners from the annexed Crimea to Ukraine. The parties agreed on this in Geneva on March 6th as part of the annual meeting of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, the press service of the Ukrainian Ombudsman reported.
"During the meeting of the ombudsmen, special attention was paid to the implementation of previous agreements made by the parties, in particular, …
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Lithuanian Foreign Minister: EU is partially responsible for annexation of the Crimea
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius believes that the EU bears partial responsibility for the annexation of the Crimea by Russia and the war in the east of Ukraine. According to him, the European Union, and the West could have reacted more quickly and done more.
"We are not consistently consistent, we reacted inappropriately. Sometimes our reaction is too late, sometimes too weak, "he said.
Linkevičius believes that the West has chosen a comfortable position, the "golden mean," for …
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The Kremlin will no longer celebrate the anniversary of Crimea’s accession in the traditional way
This year marks the third anniversary of Russia’s annexation of the Crimea. This event has been brightly celebrated for two years in a row. This year, though, the Kremlin will not celebrate the anniversary of the Crimea’s accession in the usual manner.
The traditional rally-concert in the center of Moscow will be held in a different place and format or it may not be held at all, Dozhd TV Channel reported, citing informed sources. Dozhd discovered that the causes were excessive formality of the …
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Ukrainian National Council official: There is a 'broadcasting duel' between Russia and Ukraine on the administrative border with the Crimea
A duel is being fought on the administrative border with the Russian-annexed Crimea between radio stations broadcasting from mainland Ukraine and those broadcasting from the peninsula, as explained by a member of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, Serhiy Kostynsky, to Krym.Realii.
"And it is we who set the rules. It can be seen from their initiatives, that the Crimean authorities do not have enough resources. And all that they can do is install transmitters," …
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Russia will deploy more S-400 missile systems in the Crimea
The second regiment of S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems will be stationed in the Crimea during the second half of 2017, reported the Russian News Agency TASS, citing a source in Russian military.
"Defense in the Crimea will be strengthened in the second half of 2017 by a second S-400 regiment,” the agency reported. According to TASS, the regiment will be located in the western part of the Crimean peninsula.
TASS’s source noted that in 2018, the combat strength of two regiments of …
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US State Department condemns Russia for violating human rights in the Crimea
The US State Department released its annual report on the status of human rights in the world.
Out of almost 200 countries reviewed in the first report by the new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, some of the harshest criticism is directed towards Russia, which contrasts sharply with the largely reconciliatory rhetoric of US President Donald Trump with respect to Moscow and his avoidance of public statements about human rights in Russia or anywhere else in the world.
In the section devoted to …
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State Border Guard Service of Ukraine: Russia has intensified aerial reconnaissance at the administrative border with the Crimea
The Spokesman for the Ukrainian Border Guard Service, Oleg Slobodyan, stated at a press conference in Kyiv, that Russia has recently intensified aerial intelligence at the administrative border with the annexed Crimea. Slobodyan noted that Russian troops used a Rys (Lynx) aerostat craft on the 28th of February and the 1st of March.
Ukrainian border guard officers have recorded four monitoring flights carried out by Mi 8 helicopters and the active movement of coast guard motorboats in the Black …