The Ukrainian Week

11 August, 2021	Breaking news	Reintegration Ministry drafts sanctions package against persecutors of Ukrainian Orthodox Church Another sanctions package against persons persecuting the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the occupied Crimea
27 April, 2021	World	Takashi Kurai: "The matter of Crimea is not only of local nature, not only of Ukraine alone, but a matter of regional or even global security" The Ukrainian Week met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine Takashi KURAI to discuss the cooperation between our countries, areas for further economic development and the importance of the Crimean matter
16 March, 2021	Politics	Barracks in place of a resort How Russia is turning occupied Crimea into a military base
2 April, 2020	Society	From perfidy to repression What crimes Russia has committed during the occupation of Crimea and is still committing on the peninsula
26 December, 2019	Breaking news	Ukraine opens probe into Russian train on new bridge to Crimea Ukrainian officials have opened a criminal investigation after a passenger train from Russia arrived in Crimea via a new Russian-built bridge, arguing that the train illegally carried people across the Ukrainian border
19 November, 2019	Breaking news	Russia returns Ukrainian boats seized off Crimea Russia has returned three navy boats to Ukraine almost a year after they were seized in the Black Sea off the Crimean Peninsula, officials say
29 July, 2019	Breaking news	Ukrainian law-enforcers serve suspicion notice to citizen of Serbia For participation in illegal armed formation, assisting Russia's occupation of Crimea
27 January, 2019	Breaking news	Crimean court refuses to parole Ukrainian activist Russia-occupied Crimea’s Kerchensky city court during its hearing refused to release Volodymyr Balukh on parole
7 January, 2019	Breaking news	Some 37 people arrested for political reasons in occupied Crimea in 2018 Among them are social activists and Ukrainian sailors, prisoners of war
17 November, 2018	Breaking news	Jehovah's witnesses' homes searched In Crimea Media reports in Russia say more than 30 houses belonging to Jehovah's Witnesses were searched by FSB officers in the Moscow-annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea
26 September, 2018	Economics	The return of soviet Crimea What’s happening with the Ukrainian peninsula’s economy these days?
25 September, 2018	Economics	The island of bureaucrats and soldiers How Russia is turning Crimea into a military base by changing its economy and society
23 September, 2018	Breaking news	Ukrainian warships pass under Crimean Bridge According to journalists, the two Ukrainian vessels are now in front of the Kerch Strait Bridge from the Taman peninsula to Russian-occupied Crimea
18 September, 2018	Culture	The occupied legacy Who should protect the cultural heritage of Crimea?
20 August, 2018	Politics	Crimea agonistes Why the question of Russia’s occupation of the Ukrainian peninsula remains, and will remain, open
13 March, 2018	Politics	The General vs the Admiral Could Ukraine’s armed forces have prevailed in Crimea?
14 June, 2017	Society	A no go zone. Is there peaceful assembly in Crimea? Human rights activists release an analytical report on the violations of the right to peaceful assembly in the occupied Crimea
31 January, 2017	Society	Persecutions in Crimea: Emil Kurbedinov arrested One of the most proactive lawyers defending Crimean Tatars in courts ends up behind bars
19 August, 2015	Economics	Going on Life Support The direction taken by Crimea's economy destroys its self-sufficiency and makes reintegration into Ukraine exceedingly difficult
19 August, 2015	World	The Force of Habit The interests and prejudices of officials and diplomats from the UN, OSCE, Council of Europe and other international agencies sometimes affect policy decisions more than they should
23 July, 2015	Society	Giray's Faith The roots of moderate Islam of the Crimean Tatars are buried in the history of this people
10 June, 2015	World	Raimonds Vejonis: "Everything we saw in the Soviet days still goes on, but with new actors" The Ukrainian Week spoke with Raimonds Vejonis, the newly-elected President of the Republic of Latvia and Minister of Defense when this interview was made, about NATO revival, the "deterrent effect," Putin's unpredictability, and the cost of the conflict in Ukraine to Riga
16 March, 2015	Politics	Andrii Klymenko: “One of Ukraine’s most important tasks is to ensure that sanctions for Crimea and Donbas are not separated” Why an international strategy to return Crimea is necessary and what implications the militarization of the peninsula will have for the Black Sea and Mediterranean region
16 March, 2015	Politics	The Chronicles of Alienation The annexation of Crimea from December 2, 2013, through April 4, 2014
16 March, 2015	Politics	Kyiv – Crimea: the State of Uncertainty Ukrainian authorities have failed to learn their Crimean lessons, leaving the return of it to "children and grandchildren"
16 March, 2015	World	David Kramer: “We have an obligation to help Ukraine defend itself” How visible Crimea is a year after annexation internationally, how seriously the threat of its militarization is seen in the West, and why Barack Obama is reluctant to provide effective support to Ukraine
5 January, 2015	History	Crimean Anchor The rationale behind transferring the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954
4 January, 2015	Economics	The Shattered Showcase of the Russian World Crimea’s real economy will shrink further if the Russian occupation continues. Those employed in it will lose income and jobs
29 December, 2014	Society	The Nerve of Annexation Some experts feel that the war in the Donbas was started to distract attention from the annexation of Crimea and force its recognition. If this is the case, the goal has almost been achieved. Indeed, when the military and civilians are dying, who can be bothered with Crimea where everything seems to be relatively quiet? However, that quietness is deceptive.
28 December, 2014	Society	Crimea: The Multitude of Nations The Bulgarians, Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Karaites, Crimean Tatars, Krymchaks, Ukrainians, Russians, Romani – these are just the most prominent of the ethnic groups that populated the peninsula over the last 150 years
26 December, 2014	Politics	The Unfree Peninsula The Kremlin will try to secure Crimea for itself, so in 2015, it will continue to intensify the militarisation of this Ukrainian region.
10 July, 2014	World	Damon Wilson: “Permanent neutrality and “Finland status” are bad ideas for Ukraine’s own interests” The Ukrainian Week talked to Damon Wilson, executive vice-president of The Atlantic Council, about the establishment of the pro-Ukrainian community in the world, the US-Russia relations after the annexation of Crimea, the new Ukrainian military and the likelihood of NATO MAP for Ukraine
13 June, 2014		About Us Without Us Live reports for foreign TV are much like navigating a minefield of alien stereotypes, alien influences, alien prejudices and alien interests. Things are further complicated by the spiteful foreign language that just keeps picking all the wrong words out of memory, as you feverishly fish for the right ones.
11 June, 2014	Society	Russia: Headlong Away From Freedom The ability to travel or foreign channels on cable TV are failing to safeguard homo post-sovieticus from propaganda of hatred
10 June, 2014	Society	Exporting Hatred Human rights advocates and international experts are alarmed at growing xenophobia in Crimea and separatist-controlled territories
22 May, 2014	Society	Peter Pomerantsev: “Russia Today is a distraction for more subtle things that Russia does in the sphere of information” The Ukrainian Week talks to Peter Pomerantsev, British television producer and non-fiction writer who spent nine years in Russia, on Russian state propaganda, new methods of informational war and how Ukraine should defend itself
7 May, 2014	Society	Museums Under Occupation Museums holding over 917,000 exhibits are the price of Ukraine’s cultural loss in Crimea. While museum workers there try to adapt to the new circumstances, Ukraine is looking for ways to keep valuable objects
24 April, 2014	Society	Self-Preservation for Crimean Muslims Said Ismagilov, the Mufti of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Ukraine Ummah: “The status of Muslims here is far better than in Russia”
23 April, 2014	Politics	Crimean Mafia in Politics Russian aggression in Crimea reveals interesting aspects of using criminal groups in politics
23 April, 2014	Politics	Serhiy Kunitsyn: “The only thing that forced Crimean elite to support Moscow was the presence of 20,000 Russian troops” Ex-premier of Crimea speaks about a fatal four-day procrastination following Russia’s invasion, attempts to bribe Crimean Tatars and reasons why the leaders of Crimea’s enforcement authorities defected to the Russians
10 April, 2014	News	PACE: The illegal annexation of Crimea has no legal effect and is not recognised by the Council of Europe The outcome of the so-called referendum in Crimea and “the illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation therefore have no legal effect and are not recognised by the Council of Europe”, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) stated on Wednesday, April,9th, in an resolution adopted at the end of an urgent debate.
3 April, 2014	Politics	The Old New Cold War Edward Lucas: “The new Cold War has been about the use of Russian money to divide the weak of the West and also the use of the energy weapon”
1 April, 2014	World	Dear Price for Cheap Popularity By plunging Russia into a full-scale confrontation with the West to boost his own popularity ratings Vladimir Putin may be preparing his country for another sobering shock from the defeat in a conflict with the entire world
19 March, 2014	Politics	Viktor Chumak: “Crimea can be used as a base for further intervention in south-eastern regions of Ukraine” Viktor Chumak, MP, Head of the Parliamentary Committee for Fighting Corruption and Organized Crime and Major General of Justice, who served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Border Service for over 20 years, talks to The Ukrainian Week about Ukraine’s defence capability, ways to localize Russian aggression and protection of Ukraine’s eastern borders
7 March, 2014		“And then came we, the universal heirs, and with us the spirit of destruction” The train of history is long gone, and the nostalgia of various “Russian blocs” is pointless, because the Crimea is not a “native Russian land”