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WATCH: Moscow Court Upholds Extending Pretrial Detention Of Ukrainian Sailors

Live Blog: A New Government In Ukraine (Archive Sept. 3, 2018-Aug. 16, 2019)

-- EDITOR'S NOTE: We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog as of August 17, 2019. You can find it here.

-- A court in Moscow has upheld a lower court's decision to extend pretrial detention for six of the 24 Ukrainian sailors detained by Russian forces along with their three naval vessels in November near the Kerch Strait, which links the Black Sea and Sea of Azov.

-- The U.S. special peace envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, says Russian propaganda is making it a challenge to solve the conflict in the east of the country.

-- Two more executives of DTEK, Ukraine's largest private power and coal producer, have been charged in a criminal case on August 14 involving an alleged conspiracy to fix electricity prices with the state energy regulator, Interfax reported.

-- A Ukrainian deputy minister and his aide have been detained after allegedly taking a bribe worth $480,000, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau said on Facebook.

*Time stamps on the blog refer to local time in Ukraine

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We are now closing the live blog for today, but we'll be back again tomorrow morning to follow all the latest developments. Until then, you can keep up with all our other ongoing Ukraine coverage here.

23:08 18.5.2019

Here's an item from the Crimea Desk of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service:

Crimean Tatars Mark Anniversary Of Stalin-Era Deportations

Police in Simferopol warned participants that the event was unauthorized but otherwise did not interfere.
Police in Simferopol warned participants that the event was unauthorized but otherwise did not interfere.

SIMFEROPOL -- Dozens of Crimean Tatars have marked the anniversary of the Stalin-era deportations from the Black Sea peninsula, with police warning participants that the event was unauthorized but otherwise not interfering.

The May 18 event, held in the peninsula's capital city Simferopol, took place without incident or any reported detentions, even as some participants argued with law enforcement officials.

Around 100 people recited prayers at a city park where a small monument stands to the tens of thousands who died during the 1944 deportations.

Some participants dressed in traditional garb, while others carried the flag of the Crimean Tatar community. Several elderly survivors recalled their experiences from the deportations.

Тhe Black Sea peninsula was annexed by Russia in March 2014.

The Crimean Tatar community has refused to recognize Russia's assertion of authority over the region, and many activists have been harassed or detained.

In May 1944, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the community deported, accusing them of collaboration with the Nazis.

Tens of thousands died during the operation and during the first severe months in Kazakhstan and other remote parts of the Soviet Union.

They were only allowed to begin returning to Crimea in the late 1980s.

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