Tag: Crimea

A family from the Crimea approached the Open Dialogue Foundation asking for help. At the time of the referendum, which was held in March 2014, they detected electoral fraud and propaganda actions on the Internet, opposing the misinformation disseminated by the pro-Russian media.

Anna, the wife of Ukrainian army soldier Alexander Boyko, has approached the Open Dialogue Foundation for help.

On 23 May, 2014, Kiev will host the 1st All-Ukrainian Congress of Forcibly Displaced Persons from the Crimea.

The Government of Ukraine is actively discussing the topic of FDPs who were forced to leave the occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (ARC), declaring a readiness to provide them with legal and material assistance.

Krzysztof Bukowski was a guest at tvp.info and talked during the programme, amongst other things, about Poland’s engagement and role in relation to the situation in Ukraine.

On 1 April, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is to vote on the adoption of the Law ‘On the rights and freedoms of citizens in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine’.

Flags of the Russian Federation are hoisted in all military facilities in the Crimea. Ukrainian servicemen are leaving the territory of the peninsula. Negotiations are also being carried out regarding an unimpeded withdrawal of logistics (including weapons and ships).

Dziennikpolski24.pl informs of the support shown by the Open Dialogue Foundation to five families from Crimea.

Representatives of the Open Dialogue Foundation have analysed the locations which are ready to receive Tatar families, organised by the local partners of the foundation.

Gazeta Wyborcza has published an article about the mission in support of refugees from Crimea, organised by the ODF.

On 11.03.2014, at the Crimean border, an aggravated robbery was committed against the film crew of the “ТК SKY TG 24” Italian television channel. Similar cases have become common on the Crimean peninsula in parallel with the start of the occupation by Russian armed forces.

Several Ukrainian activists and journalists have been kidnapped in the Crimea by so-called ‘vigilantes’ and representatives of the ‘Crimean Self-defence Forces’. Their whereabouts remain unknown.

Bartosz Kramek, Chair of the Foundation’s Council, commented, on Polsat News, on the developments in Ukraine prior to the upcoming referendum on the Crimea status.

Krzysiek Bukowski of the Open Dialogue Foundation for TVN24 Biznes i Świat on the situation in the Crimea before the referendum which is to decide about its status:

The Russian Federation has blatantly violated the law and international agreements by committing an unprovoked aggression on the territory of Ukraine. The violation of the territorial integrity of the Ukrainian state must cause a strong response from the European Union and the Western world.