Helping Crimean Activists One Coin At A Time
Crimean Tatar activists say they've been unfairly targeted for speaking out since Russia's annexation of the region. So a group called Crimean Solidarity is helping protesters pay fines with small change, turning every payment into a headache for officials.
Here's an interesting item from Radio Prague's news service:
Ukrainian Deputy Detained At Prague Airport
Ukrainian parliament deputy Andriy Lozovoy was detained at Prague’s Vaclav Havel Airport on Monday for paying with counterfeit euro banknotes at one of the airport’s duty-free shops.
The 29-year old Ukrainian, who is deputy chair of the opposition Radical Party, was released eight hours later.
According to Lozovoy, he was a victim of currency swindlers, who gave his assistant fake cash at an exchange office in Kiev.
Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. (CLICK TO ENLARGE.)
