• Media: Crimea awaits a full 'gas blockade'

    Forbes Ukraine reports that, according to a statement made by the representative of the Russian Union of Oil and Gas Producers, Rustam Tankan, to the Russian internet newspaper National News Service on July 22, gas will disappear in the Crimea, and a full “gas blockade” could follow.

    Tankan expressed his suspicion that the “gas secretly flows from the peninsula to mainland Ukraine.” Therefore, the entire Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Crimea is searching for the hidden flow routes.

    The …

  • Russian Paralympic suspension to last through 2018

    The Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) said that the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) decision to suspend Russian athletes applies not only to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro but also to the Winter Olympics in South Korea in 2018.

    The RPC expressed the need “to respond as soon as possible to the allegations against the Center for the Training of Russian National Teams” and to clarify the reason for the suspension of the RPC’s membership in the IPC.

    The IPC decision makes it …

  • Georgian lawyers refuse to work with Yandex because the service's maps show an independent Abkhazia

    In Georgia, lawyers refused to serve the Russian internet services company Yandex, because they use maps that list Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent countries. Former Press Secretary of the Embassy of Georgia in Ukraine, Bacho Korchilava, wrote about this on his page in Facebook.

    "The emergence of Yandex was immediately marked by a scandal, as the maps of Abkhazia and South Ossetia listed them as independent countries. Then, of course, all legal and governmental mechanisms started to …

  • Prices in Crimea continue to rise

    Prices for goods and services continue to grow in the Crimea. However, they are still significantly lower compared to the previous two years, as stated by the Natalia Grigor while speaking on Sputnik v Krymu radio. Grigor is the Deputy Head of the administrative unit of the Federal State Statistics Service of the Crimea.

    “Of course, the price levels are not like those in 2014-2015, but they continue to grow. Since the beginning of the year we have gotten 0.8% growth. In July we saw some …

  • Steinmeier: There has been no progress towards implementing the Minsk Agreements

    German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier stated that no progress is being made towards implementing the Minsk Agreements, Reuters reported. “We should work to de-escalate the situation,” Steinmeier said. According to him, the ministers for foreign affairs of Germany, Poland and France have agreed to make more of an effort to settle the conflict in southeastern Ukraine.

    Earlier, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, and the President of France, …