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Crimean prosecutor warns Tatar journalist over 'extremist' views
Дата: 31.05.2016 13:50
A prominent Tatar journalist says she was warned by Crimean prosecutors over "extremist" views for writing about the plight of Tatar children whose parents were arrested.
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Ukraine's Social Policy Ministry reports 1.8 million IDPs
Дата: 31.05.2016 10:25
According to Social Policy Ministry, Ukrainian authorities have registered nearly 1.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), as of May 30, the government website reports.
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Japanese envoy: Japan won't lift sanctions against Russia until Ukraine's sovereignty restored
Дата: 30.05.2016 15:55
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine Shigeki Sumi has reiterated that Japan will not lift sanctions against Russia until the sovereignty of Ukraine is restored.
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Russia amasses around 24,000 soldiers in Crimea - intelligence
Дата: 30.05.2016 15:00
The Russian Federation continues to deploy a powerful group of its Armed Forces on the Crimean Peninsula, which as of May 2016 has reached about 24,000 servicemen, representative of the Main Directorate for Intelligence at the Defense Ministry of Ukraine Vadym Skibitsky told a briefing on Monday in Kyiv, Ukrinform reports.
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Mejlis Chairman: Repression in Crimea growing
Дата: 30.05.2016 14:30
The authorities of temporarily-occupied Crimea are stepping up repressive measures against Crimean Tatars, according to Refat Chubarov, chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis.
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Ukrainian radio resumes broadcasting to occupied Crimea
Дата: 27.05.2016 16:05
The first channel of Ukrainian radio – UR-1 has resumed broadcasting to Crimea, currently occupied by Russia.
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Italian Foreign Ministry slams Veneto Regional Council’s resolution on Crimea
Дата: 27.05.2016 11:55
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said Italy supports the extension of sanctions against Russia and doesn’t recognize the results of the 2014 referendum in Crimea, according to the Italian Embassy in Ukraine.
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Tusk: EU sanctions against Russia to remain in place
Дата: 26.05.2016 11:05
The European Union’s economic sanctions against Russia will remain in place until the Minsk agreements are fully implemented, President of the European Council Donald Tusk said on Twitter.
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Poroshenko: We will return Donbas, Crimea the same way we returned Savchenko
Дата: 25.05.2016 17:50
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that Ukraine would return Crimea and Donbas the same way it returned Nadiya Savchenko home.
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Member of local Mejlis goes missing in Crimea
Дата: 25.05.2016 11:20
Missing Crimean Tatars incidents are on the rise in the occupied Crimea. On Wednesday May 25, former deputy city council, a member of the regional Mejlis Ervin Ibrahimov was reported missing, journalist Nadzhi Femi wrote on her Facebook page.
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Canadian Parliament calls on stepping up protection of Crimea Tatars
Дата: 20.05.2016 11:15
After the occupation of Crimea, Russia has created unbearable conditions for the native people of the peninsula, Crimean Tatars, and persecute them in any possible way, MPP Yvan Baker stated at a sitting of Ontario Provincial Parliament, Canada, Ukrinform reports.
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Mogherini expects EU to extend sanctions against Russia in July
Дата: 19.05.2016 18:55
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini expects that the EU will renew economic sanctions against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine when they expire this July. The EU foreign policy chief said this in an interview with German newspaper Die Welt on Thursday, Reuters reports.
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18 Crimean Tatars held in custody of FSB – Mejlis
Дата: 18.05.2016 16:30
As of May 18, the number of Crimean Tatar political prisoners held in custody of the Russian Federal Security Service and Russia’s Investigative Committee increased up to 18 people, Eskender Bariev, the member of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, said in Kyiv on Wednesday, Ukrinform reports.
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European Parliament resolution: Sanctions against Russia should be increased
Дата: 12.05.2016 16:10
The European Parliament in its resolution of May 12 stated that pressure on Russia should be increased and sanctions be extended due to the persecutions of representatives of the Crimean Tatar people in temporary occupied Crimea. This is said in a Parliament’s resolution approved in Strasburg on Thursday, Ukrinform reports.
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UN Security Council holds meeting at Ukraine's request
Дата: 28.04.2016 13:25
The UN Security Council is to hold a meeting at the request of the Ukrainian delegation on the development of the situation in the context of Russia's aggression in Ukraine on April 28. The press service of the Foreign Ministry reports.