Yesterday, on October 2, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don (Russia) sentenced Nariman Memedeminov, Crimean Tatar blogger and citizen journalist of the Crimean Solidarity movement, to 2 years and 6 months in a penal settlement and banned him from website management for two years.

The United States of America remains one of the most loyal and devoted friends of Ukraine, Ukraine’s ally and partner. For this, significant credit undoubtedly goes to Her Excellency, Marie Jovanovic.

Freed by the Crimean occupiers, on Tuesday, May 7, Ukrainian citizens, fishermen Ruslan Kondratyuk and Andriy Morozov, received the status of victims in criminal proceedings, guided by the prosecutor’s office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

For 3 weeks nothing is known about the entrepreneur Rashid Yagyaev's fate, Crimean Tatar who disappeared on April 22, .

On Tuesday, May 7, a representative of Ukrainian consulate in the Russian Federation was not allowed to visit the Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Balukh, who is in the ShIZO in correctional colony No.4 of the city of Torzhok, Tver Region.

On Tuesday, May 7, the occupying security forces again detained Yalta journalist and blogger Yevgeny Gaivoronsky.

The de facto investigators in occupied Crimea stated that according to the results of a biological examination, biological samples of the Crimean Tatar activist Edem Bekirov were found on a scotch tape, that was wrapped around ammunition, and a rope that fixed the backpack. According to investigators, all this allegedly belonged to a political prisoner.

The occupying authorities of Crimea freed Ruslan Kondratyuk and Andriy Morozov, two Ukrainian fishermen of the YAMK-0041 vessel, who were illegally detained in September 2018.

Volodymyr Balukh, a political prisoner, who has kept in a punitive confinement for a month now, had his period of detention extended for 15 more days.

Today, the exact date of the hearings on the case of Ukraine v. Russia in the International Court of Justice appeared. Hearings will be held on the violation of the Russian Federation International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.