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Banks Under Sanctions: The Database of the Banks Requiring Synchronization Between the Ukrainian, US and EU Sanctions Lists

06 October 2018

The Monitoring Center for the Maidan of Foreign Affairs, the Institute of Strategic Black Sea Studies and the BlackSeaNews online portal are ready to help the state authorities in finding the information and arguments for the effective work with the sanctions.

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Russian Federation Blockade of the Mariupol and Berdyansk Ports: trends and statistics

29 August 2018

For the first time, the joint monitoring group of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs, the Institute of Strategic Black Sea Studies and the BlackSeaNews online portal presents the summary and analysis of the detentions of sea vessels headed to and from the Ukrainian ports in the Sea of ​​Azov — Mariupol and Berdyansk — by the Coast Guard of the FSB Border Service of the Russian Navy.

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«The Gray Zone». The Occupied Crimea: Sanctions Violations in 2017. The Monitoring Results

13 July 2018

The annual report by Maidan of Foreign Affairs, BlackSeaNews and the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies. It contains several databases of violations of the international sanctions in 2017 in the occupied Crimea.

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Illegal Visits of Foreign Citizens to the Territory of the Occupied Crimea in Ferbruary-May 2018 — the Monitoring Results

13 July 2018

The monitoring group of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs, the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies and BlackSeaNews has summarized the results of monitoring the illegal visits of foreign citizens to the occupied Crimean peninsula.

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Database of Vessels en Route from Mariupol to Berdyansk Detained by the RF Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB in the Azov Sea

12 July 2018

The Monitoring Group of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs, the Institute of Strategic Black Sea Studies (Kyiv) and the online edition of the BlackSeaNews present the database of sea vessels going to/from Mariupol and Berdyansk, the Ukrainian ports in the Azov Sea.

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"The Gray Zone". Crimea: Four Years of Occupation

11 July 2018

The annual report by Maidan of Foreign Affairs, BlackSeaNews and the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies. It contains several databases such as a blacklist of maritime violators of so called "Crimean" sanctions for the last four years of Russian occupation.

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New Economic Sanctions Against the RF in Connection With Its Illegal Activity in the Occupied Crimea

05 July 2018

Proposals from Ukrainian think tanks the Maidan of Foreign Affairs and the Institute for Strategic Black Sea Studies, together with the BlackSeaNews online portal for the expansion of the current EU sanctions against Russia in relation to the occupation of Crimea.

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Database of the Russian Airlines that Flew to the Occupied Crimea in May 2018

04 June 2018

The monitoring group of the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies, BSNews and Maidan of Foreign Affairs has summed up the results of monitoring Russian airlines’ illegal flights to the occupied Crimea in May 2018.

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Database of the Russian Airlines that Flew to the Occupied Crimea in April 2018

23 May 2018

The monitoring group of the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies, BSNews and Maidan of Foreign Affairs has summed up the results of monitoring Russian airlines’ illegal flights to the occupied Crimea in April 2018.

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Database of the Russian Airlines that Flew to the Occupied Crimea in March 2018

02 April 2018

The monitoring group of the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies, BSNews and Maidan of Foreign Affairs has summed up the results of monitoring Russian airlines’ illegal flights to the occupied Crimea in March 2018.

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Database of the Russian Airlines that Flew to the Occupied Crimea in February 2018

03 March 2018

The monitoring group of the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies, BSNews and Maidan of Foreign Affairs has summed up the results of monitoring Russian airlines’ illegal flights to the occupied Crimea in February 2018.

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Illegal Visits of Foreign Citizens to the Territory of the Occupied Crimea in December 2017-January 2018 — the Monitoring Results

03 March 2018

The monitoring group of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs, the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies and BlackSeaNews has summarized the results of monitoring the illegal visits of foreign citizens to the occupied Crimean peninsula.

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The Illegal Mining of Natural Resources in Crimea. Part 2. The Development of the Stolen Sea

27 February 2018

Prior to the occupation of Crimea, Russia produced about 30 thousand tons of bio-resources in the Azov-Black Sea basin. That was the combined catch volume of the enterprises in the Krasnodar Territory, the Rostov Region, the Stavropol Territory, the Volgograd Region and the Republic of Adygea.

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The Illegal Mining of Natural Resources in Crimea. Part 1. The Development of the Stolen Shelf

23 February 2018

Over 2017, in violation of the norms of the UN International Convention on the Law of the Sea, Russia continued the illegal extraction of hydrocarbons in the waters of the Azov and Black Seas adjacent to the occupied Crimea.

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Database of the Russian Airlines that Flew to the Occupied Crimea in January 2018

03 February 2018

The monitoring group of the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies, BSNews and Maidan of Foreign Affairs has summed up the results of monitoring Russian airlines’ illegal flights to the occupied Crimea in January 2018.