22.05.2020, Moscow.
Crimea would still have been part of Ukraine, if not for the events in Kiev in 2014, Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia said during the UN Security Council online meeting on May 22.
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Crimean court resumes investigation into Nazis’ atrocities
13.05.2020, Simferopol.
The Crimean Supreme Court overturned an order that dismissed a criminal investigation into mass murders of Soviet citizens in Crimea during the Great Patriotic War, the Court’s press service reported on May 13.
Almost million tourists won’t see Crimea during this spring
02.04.2020, Simferopol.
The Republic of Crimea will be missing more than 900 thousand tourists in April and May as a result of the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, said the head of the Resorts and Tourism Ministry Vadim Volchenko. The note is posted on the official website of the regional government on April 2.
EU proposes strangling Crimean residents with sanctions for their own benefit — Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
21.03.2020, Moscow.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell’s statement on Crimea absurd and unfriendly during her weekly briefing on March 19.
Russian Foreign Ministry: Ukraine is preparing a provocation in Crimea on May 3
19.03.2020, Moscow.
Ukraine is preparing a provocation in Crimea on May 3, the Spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on March 19.
USAID prepares activists in Ukraine for Maidan in Crimea
12.02.2020, Kherson.
The International Republican Institute (IRI) with the assistance of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a comprehensive training program “Qırımlı Academy” for activists from Crimean Tatar organizations in Ukraine, the islam.in.ua portal reports on February 6.
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Proposed amendments to Russian Constitution may not allow Crimean residents to become Russian President
19.01.2020, Saratov.
The majority of Russian citizens currently living in Crimea are at risk to be left without a chance to run for President, said an associate professor of the Chair of Constitutional and International Law at the Volga Region Institute of Management named after M. Gorky Armen Hayrapetyan. He told it in an interview to a correspondent of the Rossa Primavera News Agency on January 19.
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Russian MP says SBU planned to blow up the Crimean Bridge prior to Putin’s crossing
13.01.2020, Moscow.
Russian intelligence services detained a terrorist who planned the Crimean Bridge terrorist attack prior to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s crossing, said Russian MP Konstantin Zatulin on January 13 on the air of the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov TV Program on the Russia One channel.
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Putin gives high marks to Crimean Bridge railway
23.12.2019, Taman.
It’s a beauty said President of Russia Vladimir Putin referring to the Crimean Bridge railway on December 23 while riding the train, RT’s reporting in a broadcast.
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Crimea responds to UN resolution on human rights on the peninsula
20.12.2019, Simferopol.
Without a personal visit to Crimea it is meaningless to adopt a resolution on human rights, said the Commissioner for human rights in the Russian Federation for Crimea Alexander Molokhov on December 19, RIA Novosti reports.
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