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

How Russia is turning occupied Crimea into a military base

What crimes Russia has committed during the occupation of Crimea and is still committing on the peninsula

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

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

For participation in illegal armed formation, assisting Russia's occupation of Crimea

Russia-occupied Crimea’s Kerchensky city court during its hearing refused to release Volodymyr Balukh on parole

Among them are social activists and Ukrainian sailors, prisoners of war

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

What’s happening with the Ukrainian peninsula’s economy these days?

How Russia is turning Crimea into a military base by changing its economy and society

Who should protect the cultural heritage of Crimea?

Could Ukraine’s armed forces have prevailed in Crimea?

One of the most proactive lawyers defending Crimean Tatars in courts ends up behind bars

The direction taken by Crimea's economy destroys its self-sufficiency and makes reintegration into Ukraine exceedingly difficult

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

The roots of moderate Islam of the Crimean Tatars are buried in the history of this people

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

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

The annexation of Crimea from December 2, 2013, through April 4, 2014

Ukrainian authorities have failed to learn their Crimean lessons, leaving the return of it to "children and grandchildren"

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

The rationale behind transferring the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954

Crimea’s real economy will shrink further if the Russian occupation continues. Those employed in it will lose income and jobs

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.

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

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

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

Said Ismagilov, the Mufti of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Ukraine Ummah: “The status of Muslims here is far better than in Russia”

Russian aggression in Crimea reveals interesting aspects of using criminal groups in politics

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

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

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”