Crimea.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
Ukrainian rights activist and former political prisoner Hennadiy Afanasyev has died fighting Russian troops in eastern Ukraine.
Police in Russia's Rostov region have apprehended a man suspected of opening fire with a machine gun at a group of police officers on December 6, wounding one of them.
The head of the Russian occupation administration in Crimea has signed off on a program of "preliminary military training" for students on the peninsula. Kyiv is castigating the move as an illegal attempt to wipe out Ukrainian identity and instill the perception that Ukrainians are an enemy.
A court in the southwestern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don has sentenced Crimean Tatar activist Marlen Mustafayev to 17 years in prison on terrorism charges.
Russian-installed occupation officials on the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea have rejected social media reports claiming that civilians were being evacuated from the city of Armyansk.
A prosecutor has asked a court in Russia's southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don to sentence Crimean Tatar activist Marlen Mustafayev to 18 years in prison on terrorism charges.
The wife of a missing Russian soldier who was fighting in Ukraine is desperately trying to find her husband and solve the mystery of his fate.
A Moscow-imposed court in the Russian-annexed Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea has sentenced three Jehovah's Witnesses to prison terms amid an ongoing crackdown against the religious group.
The chaotic and haphazard mobilization process under way inside Russia is fuelling speculation that the Kremlin is aiming to activate far more than the 300,000 soldiers initially stated by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
The de facto Supreme Court of Russia-annexed Crimea has sentenced Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyal to 17 years in prison on a sabotage charge that he and his supporters call politically motivated.
A court in Ukraine's Russian-occupied region of Crimea has jailed and fined several local residents for playing a popular Ukrainian song, Chervona Kalyna (Red Viburnum), at a wedding party.
The Moscow-controlled Supreme Court of Russian-annexed Crimea has shortened the prison term of RFE/RL freelance correspondent Vladyslav Yesypenko by one year to five years.
Russian prosecutors have asked a court in Russian-occupied Crimea to convict and sentence Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyal and two activists, brothers Asan and Akhtem Akhmetov, to 15 years in prison each.
Massive explosions hit a military airfield in Russian-occupied Crimea. Ukraine has stopped short of officially claiming responsibility, and speculation over what triggered the conflagration continues. Many locals doubt Russia's claim that the blasts were an accident.
Moscow-imposed authorities in Ukraine's Crimea that was illegally annexed by Russia say explosions hit a military airport near the village of Novofedorivka, killing one person.
Russia has added Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Slovakia, and Slovenia to its list of nations that "carry out unfriendly actions towards Russian companies and citizens."
The Kremlin-controlled Black Sea resort of Crimea is buzzing this summer vacation season with military aircraft, not tourists, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its fourth month.
As fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces quiets down on the streets of occupied Kherson, another one appears to be brewing in its halls of education.
A court in Russia has sentenced another group of Crimean Tatars to lengthy prison terms on charges of being members of a banned Islamic group amid an ongoing crackdown on representatives of such groups.
Iryna Danilovych, an activist who had gained a reputation for defending the rights of medical workers in Crimea, disappeared while returning home from work on April 29. She hasn't been heard from since, and her family and lawyers have had no luck in finding her.
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