Crimea.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
Authorities in the city of Kerch in Russia-annexed Crimea have beefed up security in the central square, where local residents bid farewell to the victims of a shooting rampage at a technical school that claimed 21 lives.
Russian authorities say 19 students and faculty members at a college in Crimea have been killed, many of them teenagers, in a bomb-and-gun attack they say was carried out by a student who fatally shot himself after the assault.
Patriarch Filaret, the head of the Kyiv Patriarchate, has welcomed a decision to recognize the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Volodymyr Balukh, a pro-Ukrainian activist jailed in Russian-controlled Crimea, has suspended a months-long hunger strike pending his expected transfer to a prison in Russia.
A court in Russian-controlled Crimea has reduced a pro-Ukrainian activist's five-year prison term by one month.
A court in Russia-controlled Crimea has started to hear the appeal of a pro-Ukrainian activist against his five-year prison term.
Russian authorities have evacuated children from part of Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, after a chemical leak. People in the area first reported breathing difficulties on August 23, but the evacuation only began on September 4.
A Ukrainian human rights groups says Russian-imposed authorities in Ukraine's occupied Crimea region have detained family members of a Crimean Tatar activist.
Olha Pavlenko, an activist from Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, has fled the Russian-occupied region after her home in Simferopol was searched by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and she was questioned by agents from Russia's Investigative Committee.
Russia-imposed officials in Ukraine's occupied Crimea region say a leak from a chemical factory in the northern part of the peninsula is the cause of an oily film that has coated nearby villages and decimated crops in the area.
Security officials in Russia-annexed Crimea have searched the home of a local Ukrainian activist on suspicion of having ties to “terrorist organizations” in Ukraine.
Since Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, it has sought to control all aspects of life on the peninsula, including its airwaves. Russian transmissions are jamming frequencies broadcast from the Ukrainian mainland, while Kyiv fights back with new and upgraded radio towers.
A Crimean Tatar activist has set himself alight in the Crimean capital, Simferopol, protesting plans by the Russia-imposed authorities to build apartment blocks on lands where Crimean Tatars houses now stand.
The trial has opened in Sevastopol of two Ukrainian nationals, Volodymyr Dudka and Oleksiy Bessarabov, who are charged with plotting sabotage in Russia-annexed Crimea.
Police in Ukrain'es Russia-annexed Crimea region have searched the house of detained Crimean Tatar Muslim Aliyev.
According to Ukraine, vegetation in Crimea is drying up at record levels.
A court in Russian-controlled Crimea has sentenced Ukrainian national Yevhen Panov to eight years in prison on sabotage charges that Kyiv contends are groundless.
Ukrainian owners of some 4,500 foreign-registered cars staged a rally in downtown Kyiv on July 11, demanding new customs regulations to reduce the costs of re-registering their vehicles in Ukraine
A driver for the wife of veteran Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev says he was tortured by officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Crimea.
A state prosecutor in Russian-controlled Crimea has asked a court to convict Ukrainian national Yevhen Panov of sabotage and sentence him to 10 1/2 years in prison.
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!["[FSB officers] showed me a warrant saying that I am suspected of having ties with terrorist organizations based in Ukraine proper," said activist Olha Pavlenko.](https://gdb.rferl.org/c3e27a05-8072-421e-9c76-2c1ad181d9dc_w100_r1.jpg)
!["[FSB officers] showed me a warrant saying that I am suspected of having ties with terrorist organizations based in Ukraine proper," said activist Olha Pavlenko.](https://gdb.rferl.org/c3e27a05-8072-421e-9c76-2c1ad181d9dc_w66_r1.jpg)
