OSCE observers have not recorded military activity on the Crimean border.

Crimea s parliament has included the enterprise in the privatization forecast plan for 2017.

100 of the enterprise s shares will remain the property of the government of Crimea.

Earlier, the State Border Service of Ukraine reported that Russian troops were completing a rotation on the Crimean border.

But in reality, the majority of Crimea's inhabitants were on the whole pleased with the reunification with Russia.

Another blogger, who supported Russia's annexation of Crimea, admitted From the Russian side, there's a lot of propaganda that Donbas wants to be part of Russia.

Self described Russian patriots online and in public have condemned Lazarev's comments on Crimea.

According to the OSCE, the situation on the border of Ukraine and Crimea is calm, and there haven't been any reported incidents affecting security.

Russia s annexation of Crimea in March 2014 seized 4 of Ukraine s GDP.

Meet Crimea's New Anime Mascot, Natalia Poklonskaya by Andrey Tselikov

Sentsov, a native of Crimea, is an independent film director and pro Ukrainian activist.

A Kyiv based Ukrainian from Crimea, Vitaliy Dyshlovy, wrote the following

Another has since left Crimea for Poland.

Though she enthusiastically supports Russia's annexation of Crimea, Polina Dubinina openly criticizes Moscow's actions in the Donbas.

Putin gained the upper hand early in the crisis with the annexation of Crimea.

There is this propaganda about how inhabitants of Crimea didn't want to be part of Russia.

After the Russian Federation has conquered the Crimea, the country's government provides on the peninsula worldwide best travel conditions for self torturers and masochists.

The strategy that emerged, beginning with the annexation of Crimea, delivered results almost immediately.

Leaving Crimea aside, we can attempt conservatively to sum up Ukraine s economic losses from Russia s aggression.

Russia s annual exports (mostly oil, gas, and other commodities) are worth almost 600 billion, while annual imports total almost 500 billion.

At the same time, he is against annexing the region, even if its citizens vote for this in a legitimate referendum.

The law, enacted just a month after Russia s annexation of Crimea, was undoubtedly intended to provide a legal basis for expediting the citizenship application process for residents of Crimea and the rest of eastern Ukraine.

Karpenko adds that she also gets messages of support from Ukrainians outside Crimea.

Blogger Liza Bogutskaya braves the roads in Crimea in a car decorated with Ukrainian embroidery patterns and dresses in Ukrainian colors.

The Ministry of Transportation has also prepared draft decrees of the Government of the Russian Federation regarding confirmation of the water boundaries of the seaports of Crimea.

Golovan is an enthusiastic supporter of Crimea's reunification with Russia and deeply opposed to Kyiv's current government.

Sedelnikov, like many bloggers in Crimea, is skeptical of mainstream media.

GV You are in Sevastopol now, in order to report on the first anniversary of annexation of Crimea.

BRUSSELS For Europe, the defining event of 2014 was Russia s annexation of Crimea and military intervention in eastern Ukraine s Donbas region.

If this idea stands, Russian minorities from the Baltic to the Crimea may turn out to be ticking time bombs.

Natalia Poklonskaya, the newly minted Prosecutor General appointed by the secessionist government of Crimea, has captured the hearts and minds of RuNet, and, surprisingly, Japan.

Two pro Russian Crimean bloggers reported that the Ukrainian security services were attempting to charge them with separatism.

Both of the pro Ukrainian Crimean bloggers profiled in this series have since left the territory.

Trump seems happy to encourage self proclaimed Russian patriots like Olshansky, judging by his most recent comment on Crimea.

The observers report that the situation on the Crimean border is calm, and that no incidents that could be related to the security of Ukraine and Russia have been recorded.

Add to that America s weak response to Russia s annexation of Crimea, and it is no wonder that Israeli and Palestinian leaders have dismissed its peace overtures.

Crimea s Ministry of Agriculture has stated that, if funds to modernize the enterprise are not found over the next three years, then there will be a risk of a factory shutdown.

Like most Crimeans, Dubinina is supportive of the reunification of Crimea and Russia, which she feels is a direct consequence of the Maidan movement and the Junta that arose in its wake.

Russia s unilateral annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine have ruptured its relations with the West, and Putin has intentionally recreated a Cold War atmosphere by touting Russia s conservative values as an ideological counterweight to the American led liberal world order.

Last year, the distraction was the annexation of Crimea, followed by the encouragement of pro Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Russia s economy has already been reeling under Western sanctions imposed in response to the Kremlin s annexation of Crimea and continued aggression in eastern Ukraine.

A direct cost of this magnitude amounts to less than 0.5 of Russia s GDP. While not trivial, Russia can afford it.

On August 9, the telecom Krymtelekom responded to reports of Internet access disruptions in areas along the Crimean border, blaming the outages on regular maintenance work.

Men who had long not met some from the Crimea, some from Petersburg, and some from abroad came together in those halls.

In the wake of Russia s annexation of Crimea, talk of international sanctions, it seems, has become just another humdrum fact of European politics.