Crimea Under Occupation
Investment. What the "Crimean" Federal Target Programme Finances / 2014-2021
20 November 2021
According to Rosstat, during the years of the occupation, investment in fixed capital in Crimea and Sevastopol has totalled $11.0 billion and $2.2 billion respectively. Of this investment, $7.5 billion (68%) in Crimea and $1.6 billion (73%) in Sevastopol were funded from the state budget. Thus, the real nature of investment in the occupied territory indicates that under international sanctions Crimea by definition cannot become attractive for investors. It has been and will remain a financial burden for the budget of the occupying power.
The Crimean "Trophy Economy": The Sale of Ukrainian Property. An Updated Review for 2014 – 2021
02 November 2021
Thus, as a result of the "trophy excitement," Crimean collaborators and their Moscow supervisors, who quickly arrived in the peninsula, found themselves needing to administer a vast amount of various property of the state of Ukraine, trade unions, research organizations, private enterprises, banks, etc. This created huge challenges related to administering these facilities, whose functioning or at least maintenance had to be ensured. The Monitoring Group of the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies and BlackSeaNews has confirmed, based on documentary sources, the facts of expropriation of 199 Crimean resort and recreation facilities
Borys Babin: International legal sources on the occupied Crimean Peninsula
26 August 2021
Expert on the international standards and acts applicable to the conflict in Ukraine, the temporary occupation of Crimea and the attempted annexation
Olena Snigyr: More than a territory: Crimea in the policy of historical memory of the Russian Federation
21 August 2021
Crimea has traditionally been the object of increased attention from Russian politicians and political scientists, but since 2014, the topic of Crimea, without exaggeration, has taken a special place in Russia’s public information space and scientific discourse. Today, the exceptional attention of Russian society to the topic of Crimea can only compete with the focus on the topic of “victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The Militarization of Crimea as a Pan-European Threat and NATO Response. Third Edition
21 August 2021
The contents of the revised report: The Reality of the Militarization of Crimea / ... The Build-Up of Coastal and Naval Missile Capabilities in Occupied Crimea/ The Crimean Military-Industrial and Service Base of the Occupying Force Grouping/ ... The Restoration of the Crimean Nuclear Infrastructure/ The Size and Composition of the Force Grouping in Crimea/ NATO's Black Sea Dilemma/ Occupied Crimea in the Syrian War/ ... NATO's Naval Presence in the Black Sea in 2014-2021/ Current Naval Trends and Forecasts
«Migration weapons»: the replacement of the Crimean population with Russian
11 July 2021
Summarising the statistics, calculations, and estimates outlined above, we can conclude that during the years of the occupation, the population of the peninsula, including Sevastopol, has increased by at least 700 thousand – 1 million people due to external migration. The de facto population of the Crimean Peninsula is at least 3 million people compared with 2,3 million people before the occupation...
Illegal Visits to Crimean Ports by Foreign Merchant Ships (Except Russian Ones) in 2020
15 March 2021
While in 2014, the first year of the occupation of Crimea and the year of the imposition of sanctions, 85 vessels violated them, later the number of violators declined annually, and in 2020, there were only 11 such vessels, i.e. their number had decreased eightfold. The impossibility of legal maritime export and import due to sanctions has rendered the whole port industry of occupied Crimea unnecessary for the economy.
How the Sanctions Work. The Defense Industry of the Occupied Crimea
22 January 2021
The occupied Crimea has become a base for troops and armaments, an important logistical point in the Russian military operations in Syria, and a convenient locale for much of the military-industrial complex formed with the captured Ukrainian enterprises.
Closure of the Black Sea in October, 2020
17 November 2020
The Monitoring Group of the Institute of Black Sea Strategic Studies, BlackSeaNews and Maidan of Foreign Affairs reports about closure of the various areas of the Black Sea in October, 2020.
The Commercial Exploitation of Marine Biological Resources
25 October 2020
Prior to the occupation of Crimea, Russia harvested about 30 thousand tonnes of biological resources in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. That was the combined landings volume of the enterprises in Krasnodar Krai, Rostov Oblast, Stavropol Krai, Volgograd Oblast, and the Republic of Adygea.
The "Trophy Economy". Militarization as a Factor of Industrial Growth
25 October 2020
As early as 4 April 2014, at an ad-hoc meeting of the Collegium of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu announced his intention to provide the industry of the occupied peninsula with state defence orders, emphasizing the importance of «using the manufacturing and technological potential of the Crimean defence industry effectively».
The Crimean Budget. Small Business. Salaries and Pensions
25 October 2020
After 2015, it became clear that the regime of international sanctions and the blockade of the occupied peninsula by mainland Ukraine made not only the economic development but also financial self-sufficiency of Crimea and Sevastopol impossible. Since then, the analysis of the budgets of Sevastopol and "the Republic of Crimea" has lost its economic sense. The basis and, at the same time, the main intrigue of the annual budgeting in Crimea are the same – the size of the subsidies from the Russian Federation.
The Banking System and Investment in Crimea: What is Really Happening on the Occupied Peninsula
20 October 2020
The state of the banking system of Crimea and the real nature of investment in the occupied territory indicates that under international sanctions Crimea by definition cannot become attractive for investors. It has been and will remain a financial burden for the budget of the occupying power.
The Crimean "Trophy Economy". The Sale of Ukrainian Property
03 October 2020
Since the first months of the annexation of Crimea, the attitude towards property rights on the occupied peninsula has been defined by the general logic of the territory seized to be used as a military base, or what we refer to as the "trophy economy". The latter is characterized not only by gross violations of the legal norms established in the civilized world but by the complete neglect thereof.
The "Trophy Economy". The Development of the Stolen Ukrainian Black Sea Shelf
02 October 2020
On 17 March 2014, Chornomornaftohaz was expropriated by the Crimean collaborators. Its offshore facilities continued to work under the round-the-clock guard by the Russian special operations forces and naval ships of the RF’s Black Sea Fleet.