Maryna Pasyuk

The Center of Journalist Investigations continues its series of publications about military units for children, created by Russian authorities in occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol. First part of the Center’s investigation focused on regional offices of All-Russian «Young Army», All-Crimean projects «Krympatriotcenter», «Union of Cossack Youth of Crimea and Sevastopol» and local organizations…

Russia has developed an immense system of youth and children’s military organizations, conducting «patriotic training» of children, including Ukrainian children on occupied territories of Ukraine. Children have been taught to fight. They have been brainwashed by Russian propagandist clichés.  Russia has increased budgetary expenses on youth policy by 50 times during last ten years –…

Looting of Ukrainian business and property in occupied Crimea acquired tsunami scale. Expropriation of land assets (from land plots with immovable property objects to thousands hectares of arable land) reminds the crime committed by the Russian empire since the first annexation of Crimea in XVIII century. De-landing and forced Russification caused emigration of aboriginal people…

Russian occupation authorities of Crimea and their Russian supervisors are happy to “nationalize” property of Ukrainian companies, politicians and businessmen with the aim to acquire it free of charge or at favorable prices. The list of expropriated objects is 83 pages long.  The first wave of illegal expropriation of the property of Ukrainians in Crimea…

The Center for Journalist Investigations keeps disclosing Russian collaborators in Crimea who receive money from Putin’s Fund of Presidential Grants for projects on occupied territories. The first part of our investigation focused on projects by Olena Aksyonova, the wife of «the Head of Crimea» Aksyonov, and propagandist Olena Ivanichenko. Our another material uncovered militarist project…

«The Fund of Presidential Grants» of Vladimir Putin granted over 600 million Russian Rubles for 290 projects in occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol. Some money were spent for educational, sports, children’s and family projects. Significant part of Putin’s grants was allocated to Russian propagandist and patriotic projects promoting «Russian world».

New profitable business is gaining momentum in occupied Sevastopol, simultaneously with lies of the Russian propaganda about «special military operation» in Ukraine. A number of organizations launched training courses of drone operators. «Sevastopol State University» proposes to master «the profession of drone operator» for 32,5 thousand Rubles.

The new puppet theatre in the center of Simferopol has been built for five years. Russian occupants contracted Moscow based company «Teplostroiservis» to complete the construction for almost one billion Rubles within three years.

Special governmental commissions on production of drones are created in occupied Crimea and Russian regions. Prospects for rich financing from the federal budget are promising. The Russian national project on creation of new industry will be launched at the beginning of 2024. There are queues to receive part of 300 billion Rubles within next three…

Production facilities of Swedish-Ukrainian JSC «Chumak» have been looted by Russian occupants in Kherson region after the Russian invasion. Recently, large quantities of tomato juice, sauce and pasta have been found on the shelves of Simferopol hypermarket «7M beztsen». As Russian occupants failed to resume the production of «Chumak» in Kakhovka, there is a high…