Contents tagged with crimea
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Media: launch of the car safety system of the Crimean Bridge postponed
The completion of the contracted work to ensure the safety of the transport on the Crimean Bridge, which connects mainland Russia with the annexed peninsula, is postponed again, the Kommersant newspaper reports citing sources familiar with the situation.
Thus, Russia postponed till the beginning of December the completion of work to ensure the auto-transport safety on the Crimean Bridge from the Kerch side. The works include the construction of a stationary truck inspection and examination …
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Media: Russian banks stop issuing Visa and MasterCard in Crimea
Crimea-based Genbank (part of the Bank of Russia group) announced last week that its support of the Visa and MasterCard payment systems would end as of August 14. It was the last bank in Crimea to issue the cards of the international payment systems, the BBC Russian service notes.
As of Tuesday, August 14, all Visa and MasterCard operations will no longer work. A Genbank call center employee clarified to Reuters in a phone call that the decision was made in connection with the sanctions placed …
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Kremlin: Sentsov must personally appeal to Putin for pardon
In reply to the Sentsov mother’s appeal, the Russian Office for the Guarantee of Citizens Constitutional Rights under the Presidential Administration said that to apply for a pardon, the film director Oleh Sentsov must write a personal plea to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Putin administration stated that they forwarded Oleh’s mother’s Ludmila Sentsova's appeal to the Governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area for his preliminary consideration, reports Hromadske.
"At the same time, …
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Former Ukrainian President: Ukrainians will be slaves without a victory plan over Russia
In an interview with Ukrayinska Pravda, Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko explained why there has been no successful conflict resolution in the Donbas or a settlement of the Crimea issue for several years.
According to him, the will determines the result of any military conflict, “If you have strong will, you will be always victorious. If you don’t it, no Buk [anti-aircraft missile system], nothing will help.”
The ex-president provided the war in Vietnam as an example. He …
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Russian Prime Minister orders Ministry of Natural Resources to ensure water supply to annexed Crimea
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Minprirody) to form a working group responsible for ensuring water supply for the Crimea, according to a statement published on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers of Russia.
"To form and approve an interdepartmental working group responsible for the water supply of the Crimean peninsula and other regions affected by water shortages… Within the framework of this working group, to develop and …
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Kremlin considers Crimean train carriages unfit for Kerch Bridge
At a meeting in Simferopol, Russian Presidential Aide Igor Levitin has demanded that the fleet of passenger railway carriages in annexed Crimea be upgraded before the opening of the railway portion of the Kerch Bridge.
“Out of 20 instructions, four still need to be carried out. One of them is to upgrade the fleet of passenger carriages on the Crimean Railway by 2020. We need to calculate how much rolling stock is needed in connection with the launch of railway traffic on the bridge,” TASS …
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Ukrainian Border Guard Service: 740 foreigners banned entry to Ukraine because of unauthorized visits to Crimea and Donbas
Since the beginning of the year, 740 foreigners have been banned entry to Ukraine for 3 years because of unauthorized visits to the territories of Donbas and Crimea which are not under Kyiv’s control, reported the State Border Guard Service (SBS) of Ukraine.
According to the SBS, evidence of the unauthorized visits to the annexed territories is often established in regards to foreigners or stateless persons as well as citizens of Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the year, the border guards …
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Putin visits annexed Crimea
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin arrived in Crimea Saturday, August 4th, where he visited the evening-opening of the festival “Opera in Chersonese.” It will take place on the territory of the museum-reserve “Chersonese Tavrichensky” in Sevastopol on August 10-12, reported the press service of the Russian president.
Putin watched the ballet, and then, with Metropolitan Tikhon visited the Vladimirsky cathedral, where “restoration work continues.”
Together with Putin, Russian …
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Ukrainian Ambassador believes Finland will deport Russians who entered the country with passports issued in Crimea
Two residents with international passports issued by annexed Crimea received Finnish tourist visas and were allowed to enter the country because human error, Radio Liberty reports, citing a statement from the Ukrainian Ambassador to Finland, Andriy Olefirov.
“It seems to me that these residents were allowed to travel to Finland on a tourist visa because of human error. Up to a million Schengen visas are issued at the consulates in St. Petersburg every year. Of course, there’s no law that …
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Russia threatens to respond to EU sanctions against the builders of Crimean Bridge
European companies working in Russia may be affected by the sanctions of the European Union imposed against the Russian companies involved in the construction of the Bridge to the Crimea, said the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement published on the Ministry's website.
The Ministry stressed that the "free choice of Crimean residents in favor of accession to Russia is troubling the European Union.” The Ministry told Brussels that since 2016, the European sanctions lists have …