Topic: Crimea - page 8. (Read 156942 times)

Galdur, I noted that in the last post of the previous page:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13665129
Looks like as soon as the new page is started, the previous messages disappear from the radar.

Interesting to note that you mentioned LenFilm and DiCaprio in another thread, while I mention Yalta Film Studio here. Both are some of the oldest in Russia.

Crimea was part of Russia until 1954, when the communist party decided to transfer it to Ukraine. But at that time both were part of the USSR, so the change was only theoretical.

It has had a Russian ethnic majority since about 1900, which continued after the dissolution of the USSR. The Russians resented being part of Ukraine, presently forming about 70% of the population, and naturally wanted to be part of their Motherland. In 1992 constitutional independence was declared, but the government in Kiev refused a referendum to confirm this

Yes, but my point is that if taking Kosovo from Serbia is supposed to be according to international law it seems difficult to judge Crimea differently.

The Serbian claim to Kosovo is much stronger than the Ukrainian claims to Crimea. Kosovo has been historic Serbian homeland since time immemorial.  The Muslims became a majority there only during the late 19th century. On the other hand, Crimea always had an ethnic Russian majority. The proportion of ethnic Ukrainians never exceeded 20% of the total population.

Within the next two weeks, Ukraine will submit lawsuits to international courts in connection with the annexation of Crimea by Russia, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.

I wonder how that will go. There´s probably an inconvenient precedent in Kosovo.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13439775

Poroshenko has announced a "road map" for annexation of Crimea by Ukraine - during the next two weeks they plan to start some court initiatives:
https://rns.online/economy/Ukraina-i-ee-kompanii-v-techenie-2-nedel-podadut-iski-dlya-zaschiti-svoih-interesov-v-Krimu-2016-01-24

Meanwhile in Crimea, they plan to resurrect The Yalta Film Studio, which was left in complete desolation after 2 decades of Ukrainian occupations. This will cost Russian budget about $80 million (according to Nikita Mihalkov's estimates):
http://www.natali.ua/culture/events/50260/

About Yalta Film Studio (in Russian)

A footnote: since 22nd of December of 2015, Yalta Film Studio (founded in 1917, recreated in 1922, though film "The Defence of Sevastopol" was filmed there already in 1911) is in the sanctions list of the USA. Presumably because it is now reconstructed and its goal to to combat the cultural isolation of Crimeans, which they experienced under Ukraine.

Ukrainian tycoon who sued Russia embezzled accounts of 1 mln Crimea residents - Menyailo

http://tass.ru/en/politics/848516


Maybe the Hague court should review how he got his hands on the Belbek Airport in the first place...

An article with a fragment of interview with Sergej Aksjonov, head of the Crimean Republic:
http://www.dni.ru/polit/2016/1/9/325062.html

In it he details the state of Crimean tourist attraction after many years under Ukraine. Ukraine never invested anything into tourism on Crimea [I can attest to it as I spent several summers in Crimea, while it was under Ukraine, and the state there was is if you returned to the 80s.] Everything was destroyed. Whatever could be stolen, was stolen. The state of the tourist objects was as if "Mamaj ran over them" [This Russian phrasologism harks back to the 300 years of occupation of Russia by Tatar-Mogol Hordes] - that is in complete desolation.

He said that 180 objects have so far been nationalised.

Crimea is currently actively prepares for the upcoming summer high season.

Russian Arab Republic?

I think after the Russians have flushed all the terror vermin out of Syria back to Turkey and Saudi-Arabia where they belong, the Syrians will rename Tartus as Putingrad, even make it a Russian enclave similar to Kaliningrad. Maybe Coca-Cola will apologize in 2018 for missing it 

Addictive? I doubt that, to me it's no more addictive than a chocolate or tea. I've stopped drinking coca-cola without any problem. I have even forgotten what it looks like.

Yeah, it´s crap but it´s a very powerful business concern that in this case at least doesn´t feel that it needs to take orders from governments about its promotional material.

Coca cola rots your teeth, makes you fat, gives you diabetes and it is addictive,Only Satan would spread such a drink!

Coca-Cola has apologized for not including Crimea, the Kaliningrad Region and the Kuril Islands as part of Russia on its Christmas advertising map. The US company quickly re-issued a new map which included the three Russian regions on it. ...

​The incident was also noticed by Ukrainian politicians, some of whom said Ukraine should boycott Cola-Cola products for including Crimea as the part of Russia.
Ukrainian MPs Mustafa Nayyem and Oleh Tyahnybok said Ukraine should ban the activity of Cola-Cola in the country.
"Authorities! Immediately ban the activities of this American company in Ukraine, which de-facto recognized Crimea belonging to Moscow," Tyahnybok wrote on his Facebook account.   


Read more: http://sputniknews.com/russia/20160105/1032723513/coca-cola-map-russia-crimea.html#ixzz3wOjB1H2K

Yeah, good luck with banning Coca Cola 

Russia Plans Survey in Crimea on Ukraine Electricity Contract

MOSCOW — In an echo of the referendum in 2014 on whether to join Russia, residents of Crimea are being asked if they want to reaffirm their choice.

The catalyst this time is the power grid. The longstanding contract under which Ukraine supplied about 70 percent of the peninsula’s electricity expired on Thursday. Ukraine is willing to sign a new one, but only if the contract states explicitly that the Black Sea peninsula is part of Ukraine, the Russian minister of energy, Aleksandr Novak, said on state television.

Now President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has ordered a survey of Crimean residents asking if they want to accept such a contract — and if they want to reaffirm being part of Russia.

The contract demand could not be immediately confirmed by Ukraine. Ukrainian reports said that Ukrenergo, the state-run company that controls the grid, had declined to comment and that officials were unavailable.

In March 2014, Mr. Putin sent troops to seize Crimea from Ukraine and then hastily organized a referendum through which an overwhelming majority of the two million residents supported the idea of joining Russia.

But much of the infrastructure in Crimea is still dependent on Ukraine. Electricity supplies were curtailed in November after opponents of the Russian annexation, including members of the Tatar minority, blew up four pylons in Ukraine supplying power to Crimea. The damage was partially repaired, although new pylon problems caused failures on Thursday in Sevastopol.

The proposed public survey essentially will ask Crimeans whether to accept the Ukrainian wording in the new contract, and get a steady power supply, or to reject it and live with rolling power outages for months until Russia can establish an alternative source. The small survey was expected to be completed by Friday.

An initial link to the Russian mainland was connected in December, but it supplies only a fraction of the electricity needed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/01/world/europe/russia-crimea-ukraine-energy.html?ref=world

A kind of auxiliary referendum - an energy one - has been conducted in Crimea. Before renewing a contract with Ukraine, Crimeans were asked, by Putin's request, whether they would want this contract continued. 93.1% of Crimeans responded no to continued delivery of electricity from Ukraine o Ukraine's conditions. The condition was that Ukraine specifies in the contract Crimea as Ukrainian territory.

http://www.tvc.ru/news/show/id/83929/?utm_source=news.yandex.ru&utm_content=RSS&utm_campaign=yandex

A bit old, but:

Erdogan Meets With Crimean Blockade Organizers: Naval Provocation Imminent?
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20151219/1032016827/erdogan-crimean-naval-blockade.html

Yes, they have their dreams...

This is why I never trust these Crimean Tatars, although some of them claim that they are pro-Russian. In reality, there is a secret agenda among these people to merge Crimea with Turkey. None of them will talk about it in the open, since they are only around 12% of the population. However, once they become 30% or more, they will start terrorist activities inside Crimea.