Crimea.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
Ukrainian officials have unveiled a monument at Kyiv's international airport to commemorate the victims of a Ukrainian airliner that was shot down by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Tehran last month.
A Russian-administered court in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula ruled on February 16 to detain four Ukrainian fisherman for 10 days as civil punishment for "illegally fishing" in the Sea of Azov where they were detained and had their boat impounded the previous day.
A court in Crimea has extended the pretrial detention of pro-Ukrainian activist Oleh Prykhodko.
A district court in Russia-controlled Crimea has jailed an embattled safari park owner in connection with his failure to appear for a court proceeding related to a lion biting a park visitor.
RFE/RL contributor Mykola Semena was barred from working as a journalist or leaving the Crimean peninsula after a court in the Russian-controlled territory convicted him of separatism in 2017. But authorities have now expunged his criminal record and he is again free to work and travel.
Mykola Semena, who has contributed to RFE/RL’s Krym.Realii (Crimea Realities), was arrested by Crimea’s Russia-imposed authorities in April 2016 and charged with acting against the “territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.” His criminal record was officially annulled on January 28. (RFE/RL)
An RFE/RL contributor in Ukraine’s Russia-controlled Crimea region has received court papers officially confirming the termination of his probation and the expunging of his criminal record.
Russia's Border Guard Service, a branch of the Federal Security Service (FSB), has banned Ukrainian journalist Taras Ibrahimov from entering Russia and the Russian-occupied Ukrainian region of Crimea until the middle of 2054.
A court in Ukraine’s Russia-controlled Crimea region has ruled to prematurely terminate the probation period and expunge the criminal record of Mykola Semena, an RFE/RL contributor who was convicted of separatism on the peninsula.
The last remaining Ukrainian-language school in Russian-occupied Crimea doesn’t provide instruction in the eastern Slavic language, Eskender Bariyev, head of the Crimean-Tatar Resource Center, told RFE/RL in a radio interview on January 1.
Residents of the Crimean city of Simferopol cheered the arrival of a train from Moscow, the first to make that journey since transport links with mainland Ukraine were severed five years ago. As the train arrived early on December 26, local officials thanked Vladimir Putin for the construction of the bridge over the Kerch Strait, which the president had inaugurated earlier this week.
A Ukrainian court has extended by 60 days the arrest of a U.S. combat veteran who fought in the Donbas conflict and who is wanted in the United States on charges related to a double homicide.
Apple is showing Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula as being part of Russia on some of its apps, a move that lawmakers in Moscow hailed as correcting an earlier "error" by the U.S. technology giant but one that is sure to anger Kyiv.
After five years of conflict in eastern Ukraine, the port of Mariupol is struggling to survive. With the loss of coal exports and Russia choking access to the Sea of Azov, the port's maritime traffic has been cut in half. But Mariupol hopes Chinese investment can revive its sinking fortunes.
A Russian-controlled court in annexed Crimea has ordered the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) to demolish its chapel in Yevpatoria.
Russia is expected to return three seized Ukrainian naval vessels sometime on November 18 as German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas travels to Kyiv on November 18.
A Russian court has handed lengthy prison terms to six men from Ukraine’s Crimea region, five of whom are Crimean Tatars, for being members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group.
University students, teachers, parents of the deceased and other residents of the city of Kerch in Russia-annexed Crimea have laid flowers and held a minute of silence on the first anniversary of a shooting rampage at the Kerch Polytechnical College that left more than 20 people dead and dozens wounded.
Dolphin shows are popular on Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula, which is controlled by Russia. But the venues housing them are falling apart.
A former U.S. soldier is facing possible extradition from Ukraine to face murder and robbery charges in Florida. Craig Lang had been a foreign mercenary against pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine but now he faces a major battle in court.
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