Napetost v Ukrajini - Krimu

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Pro-Kiev artillery has been attempting to destroy a railroad haul connecting DPR with Ukraine. The Skotovskaya rail terminal is damaged. Train movements are temporary stopped. A real level of destruction is unknown.

From the direction of Avdeevvka, Ukrainian artillery shell Donetsk Airport and residential areas around it. The clashes are also going at Peski.

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BREAKING NEWS: 4 F-22 #Raptors, 1 C-17 #Globemaster III & about 60 #Airmen arrived at @Spangdahlem_AB moments ago.

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#F22s are here! @HQUSAFEPA @usairforce @US_EUCOM @USAF_ACC @TYNDALL @NATO @DeptofDefense #Raptors#Spangdahlem#Eucom

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Brauner Aufmarsch heute in Heidenau mit Putins Symbolik: In den "heute"-Nachrichten waren Bilder einer Demo der Rechtsextremen zu sehen - und ganz vorne die Fahne der "Donezker Volksrepublik" - eines kriminellen Pseudo-Staats, den Moskaus Truppen und Helfer in den besetzten Gebieten der Ukraine ausgerufen haben. Unter den Demonstranten: bekannte Figuren der Freitaler Neonazi-Szene oder der Dresdner Pegida-Anwalt Jens Lorek. Bemerkenswerte Allianzen. Die Szene führt vor Augen: Putins deutsche Verteidiger a lá Schröder, Augstein und Eppler befinden sich in einem überaus unappetitlichem Umfeld.

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A top Russian security official was very clear about the dangers Crimea is facing.

"Terrorism and corruption threaten Crimea," Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Security Council and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, reportedly said in the southern city of Sevastopol in early August, during a meeting with local officials.

The first threat, "terrorism", was an obvious reference to the unrelenting international demands to return the peninsula Russia annexed from Ukraine last year, an action the UN and Western countries do not recognise.

The second threat of corruption is much more ubiquitous in the lives of every Russian and Ukrainian.

Russia and Ukraine ranked 136 and 142, respectively, of a total 175 countries in the 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index by Berlin-based Transparency International.

For many here, the March 2014 annexation, which was hailed by Russian media as Crimea's return to "motherland", was like trading a bad situation for a worse one.

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As decades-old supply routes from Ukraine were severed, prices on the peninsula skyrocketed, according to local residents.

Local businessmen complain about the difficulties they face when registering their companies under the Russian jurisdiction.

The transition has created fertile ground for corruption.

Patrushev told a government meeting that more than 60 officials were fired for corruption and some 700 corruption-related crimes have been identified in Crimea since the annexation.

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Yanukovich's cronies started "corruption schemes, a system of kickbacks, nepotism and family connections", Grigory Ioffe, head of Crimea's Public Chamber, told Al Jazeera.

"It metastasised throughout Crimea's economy - and not just economy, businesses, ties outside Crimea - so much that within the year-and-a-half [of Russian rule] it is really difficult to get rid of that by just dismissing these people," Ioffe said.

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"There was a resumption of the corrupt practises that existed here under the Ukrainian government, when the entire system was infected with corruption from top to bottom," Vladimir Garnachuk, a former Crimean lawmaker and head of the Clean Coast Crimea public organisation, told Al Jazeera.

He said local elites centred around Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov resist the Kremlin's attempts to influence decision-making on the peninsula. They adopt laws that contradict Russia's federal legislation and scare off Russian investors, he purported.

"What's going on here is some sort of a separatist movement," Garnachuk said.

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Yatsishina and dozens of Fiolent residents formed a group to fight land developers who seized a Soviet-era campground and installed metal fences blocking their access to the sea.

Despite a court ruling that deemed the land grab illegal, the developers are still there building luxurious houses, reinstalling the fences, posting guards, and cutting off water and electricity supply to the community, residents say.

After some 150 of them signed a petition to Putin and Crimea's general prosecutor's office, each received phone calls from city officials urging them to recall the petition.

"We don't doubt that these people have the power and means to cause trouble," Yatsishina said.

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Three dozen white tents were pitched throughout Sevastopol in mid-August when Putin visited the peninsula. The tents were decorated with a round logo depicting Crimea surrounded by black, twisted arms. A sign below read: "Stop the pillaging of Sevastopol!"

Young activists dispatched by the city's parliament told passers-by they were collecting signatures under a petition to Putin to sack the city mayor and appoint a "literate, effective manager".

Some 22,000 Sevastopol residents, or some seven percent of the city's population, had signed the petition by late August.

Putin is widely seen as the good tsar and the supreme arbiter of disputes with the Russian state.

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Uporabnik Rosenthal pravi:
na istoku Ukrajine utihnula artiljerija

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