The Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled on October 26 that the collection of Scythian gold taken previously from Crimea should be transferred to Ukraine. The presiding judge, Pauline Hofmeijer-Rutten, said the artefacts in question were part of Ukraine’s cultural heritage and must be handed over to the Ukrainian side. Scythian gold is a collection
The British Royal Court responded to a letter from schoolchildren of the “Small Academy of Sciences” in Sevastopol, Crimea. In the “address” section, there is stated “Sevastopol, Russia”. Thus, the country’s government indirectly recognised that the peninsula belongs to Russia. As noted, this summer, the students of the creative association “Entertaining English” wrote a letter
One of the most successful athletes in Ukraine won a victory last weekend that allowed him to take his career to the next level. However, none of the Ukrainian TV channels showed the fight of him, AiF reports. Alexander Usyk is an Olympic champion in London 2012, in the summer of 2018 he became the
Russia regrets Turkey’s refusal to recognize the results of the State Duma elections in Crimea and hopes that the country’s position on this issue will change, as stated by the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Lenta reports. “We do not accept such statements, and we openly say this to our Turkish colleagues. The topic of Crimea
The Head of the Republic of Crimea, Sergey Aksenov, told about the details of the project for the construction of a new resort town, which is planned to be located on the west coast of the peninsula, in the Saki district, TourDom reports. According to the Head, the choice of location is due to several
Turkey’s refusal to recognize the Crimean Peninsula as Russian became the main obstacle on the way towards maintaining a good partnership between the two countries, RT reports. After Turkey made a decision to support Ukraine’s claims over the status of Crimea, the country sent its top diplomat to Kiev, thus showing that it’s taken the
On Friday, August 20, Russian President, Vladimir Putin, at a press conference with German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, spoke about the tense situation in Donbass, TASS reports. He recalled that since the beginning of August, more than a thousand cases of violation of the ceasefire regime have been recorded on the territory of the Donetsk and
President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, believes that Crimea will “gladly” accept the Ukrainian authorities and is sure that the inhabitants of the peninsula will not have problems with a “mental return” to Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports. “The situation with the mental return is as follows: it seems to me that they understood what had happened,
The Black Sea is becoming a zone of dangerous military confrontation due to NATO exercises, the director of the fourth European department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yuri Pilipson, said in the interview with RIA Novosti. According to him, the alliance’s manoeuvres in the region provoke conflicts. “It is quite obvious that this
Experts told how much it costs to rent housing in the most popular resorts of Crimea, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the data provided by analysts of the Sutochno.ru rental service. According to the data provided, Yalta, Sevastopol, and Evpatoria were the most popular Crimean destinations this summer. Next on the list are Gurzuf,
The project of the Russian unmanned aerial taxi is presented at the ‘Intellect of Machines and Mechanisms’ exhibition in Sevastopol, RIA Novosti reports. The developers of the project are the “Problem Laboratory “Turbomachines” and the research laboratory “Flight Dynamics and Control of Unmanned Aircraft Systems”. “New principles of aerodynamics, which make it possible to build
The first wine park in Russia, Mriya Resort & SPA, was opened in Yalta in test mode. It is ready to receive up to 100 thousand guests a year, Vesti Krym reports with reference to the Head of the wine park Evgenia Konstantinova. “We have conceived the wine park as a platform that will
On Victory Day Yalta rescuers raised a red flag on the Ai-Petri peak, TASS reports. According to the Black Sea Fleet press service, about 5,000 servicemen, representatives of the Russian Guard and the Emergencies Ministry, cadets and Yunarmiya (“Youth Army”) detachments, as well as more than 200 units of military equipment, took part in the
