Thousands of people are currently in prisons in the separatist republics. The majority of these prisoners are separatist fighters or civilians or the civilians. Journalist Denis Kazansky provides this this statistics citing a Russian national, Anastasia Mikhailovskaya, who identifies herself as a human rights activist and representative of the late Doctor Liza, the renowned Russian humanitarian worker and charity activist.

Mikhailovskaya recently raised the issue about the real number of …

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," …

The Russian FSB is conducting searches regarding a case of fraud on an especially large scale, the primary subject of it being the Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, Rosbalt news web site reports.

As Rosbalt reports with reference to a source in the law enforcement authorities, searches have been carried out at a number of former managers of the insurance company “Rossiya”, at the offices of firms related to this company, and also at the major legal office which represents the insurers’ …