Another Crimean resident, a local woman, was detained by Russian law enforcers in the occupied Crimea's Simferopol Dec 26 as raids and searches continue across the peninsula, according to RFE/RL's Krym-Realii media project reports.
The security forces of the Russian occupation authorities are carrying out searches in the house of Crimean Tatar activist Ibrahim Osmanov in the village of Urozhainoe in the illegally annexed Crimea, as reported by activists of Crimean Solidarity.
The Kremlin-controlled parliament of Crimea on November 29 approved in the second reading the law, which "writes off" debts on loans taken before the annexation of the peninsula, according to the press service of the parliament, Krym.Realii reported.
The United States Department of State in its statement published October 3 says Washington is deeply troubled by the September 27 conviction and two-year prison sentence for Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov in Russian-occupied Crimea.