In Crimea, the field of civil society and the media almost completely denuded
Last year the Crimea there is a legal gray area, where the rights and freedoms of citizens is considerably less in comparison not only with Ukraine, but also with Russia.
This week in Russia swept the celebration of the first anniversary of the “return of the Crimea.” And though the entire civilized world except occupation capture Ukrainian peninsula does not call, there continue to live the same people. In what conditions they were? What is the fate of civil society of the Crimea? This information service ” EuroBelarus ” said human rights activist Andrei Yurov, one of the founders and the first head of the Crimean human rights field mission, a member of the Human cheloeka of the Presidential Council:
– In Crimea, the situation is not tragic. There people do not shoot on the streets. She just consistently bad. I would say that three legal source of the scaffold situation.
Source first. Crimea from the point of view of international law is the area seems to be in Ukraine’s jurisdiction, but in fact – is in some gray legal area. normal legal mechanisms simply do not work for many people in the Crimea. These people even on the territory of continental Ukraine were people with different status, as they have become hostages of the situation. documents are not recognized by many people in the Crimea in Ukraine. But people are not to blame because they were in such conditions. Many of them would not vote. Well, yes, silent. But in the end, this – ordinary people. And the fact that the territory with a population of 2.5 million people turned out in a gray legal area – the situation is quite unique. That there are people out there collectively amazed rights.
The second point relates to the fact that it is against human rights Ukrainian legislation was always more liberal, closer to European standards than the Russian. It is clear that people are accustomed to a slightly different level of freedom. They are accustomed to for any reason, for example, in connection with the dismissal from work, take to the streets. And now it is found that it can not be done. That is, the inhabitants of the Crimea thought that Russia – a country with the same level of rights and freedoms, such as Ukraine, but even more rich and less corrupt. And it was discovered that Russia is indeed a country with a strict life, but not necessarily less corrupt, with a wealth of somewhere better, somewhere worse, but in the sphere of rights and freedoms of all much worse. Yes, salaries immediately became more, but higher steel prices. That is, people were in a very difficult situation, in limiting their freedom of the legal framework in which they are not accustomed to live. Indeed, in Russia about 15 years have enacted laws that restrict the rights and freedoms. And the Russians have over the years used to it, as, indeed, and Belarus. And then people have gone through this 15-year sentence for one year. And it’s hard. After all, as a result, many did not know what they can get under administrative or criminal prosecution. Because they are 20 years of living in another country, where, perhaps, there was more chaos, but also freedom there was much more. for they can get under administrative or criminal prosecution. Because they are 20 years of living in another country, where, perhaps, there was more chaos, but also freedom there was much more. for they can get under administrative or criminal prosecution. Because they are 20 years of living in another country, where, perhaps, there was more chaos, but also freedom there was much more.
And finally, the third factor – it’s lawmaking local authorities, who make their own laws – the nationalization of self-defense, that even from the point of view of Russian law is very doubtful. Even in a fairly repressive Russian law such laws in the Russian regions do not.
As a result of the triple oppression, makes this area, in terms of human rights, much worse and the mainland of Ukraine, I’m talking about her calm regions and normal regions of Russia.
As for NGOs, it should be borne in mind that the Crimea has always, from the point of view of the development of civil society, has been one of the most backward and underdeveloped regions of Ukraine. Civil society there has been rather weak. And over the past year, all active NGO-Schnick for various reasons left out. As a result, it remained very much a social organization that can or are willing to work with any power, or very tiny marginal structure. But they can not replace those NGOs that were previously there somehow still worked. Same with the independent media. They actually destroyed. That is, in the Crimea, civil society and the media field is almost completely denuded. Many people left, and most of those who remained, ceased activities in this area.
Sourse, 21/03/2015
