Articles

Crimea is an integral part of Ukraine. It’s not just a political slogan. For 5 years of annexation, the peninsula gradually acquires its original appearance before the opening of the North-Crimean Canal – the arid steppe with salt marshes. The senseless extraction of natural resources from the depths caused great damage to Crimea’s fragile ecosystem. Experts agree that Crimea will not survive without the Dnipro river. In addition, in August 2018, the negligence of the occupation authorities led to an environmental disaster in Armyansk. Suffering the same fate is a risk for Kerch. If the destructive processes do not stop, soon the once fertile resort peninsula will become uninhabitable and won’t ever look itself.

He’s a shortish skinny tanned man, with sinewy arms. He has dark bags under his sunken eyes. He’s wearing a check shirt, his dark hair reflecting the luminiscent light. You cannot say for sure what his facial expression means – it’s not anxiety, but it’s not confidence either. He seems to be far away from here. 

We are publishing the story of Akhtem Mustafayev, the driver of Mustafa Dzhemilev’s family. He was tortured to give evidence in the so-called case on arson of the house of Mufti of the Crimea Emirali Ablayev.

Two years ago Ervin Ibrahimov, Crimean Tatar, was abducted. QirimInfo talked with Emil Kurbedinov – lawyer, engaged in the Ervin’s case, about why the investigators drag the investigation.

Lutfie Zudieva is a director of the children center “Elif”, an activist. She has also been a civic defender within the judicial process over the single piquet participants, taking place on December 18, 2017.

On February 27th 2014, the Russian Federation (RF) began a military operation to occupy Crimea, which is a part of Ukraine. Within a few weeks the RF had established military control over the peninsula and concluded an agreement with the puppet government about the ‘entry’ of Crimea into the Russian Federation.

At the beginning of October started in Crimea the first arrests on charge of belonging to “Tablighi Jamaat”, according to Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.