{"id":5564,"date":"2015-10-01T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2016-03-17T10:21:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T10:21:37","slug":"blockade-of-the-crimea-a-tool-of-social-influence-on-aggressor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/blockade-of-the-crimea-a-tool-of-social-influence-on-aggressor\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockade of the Crimea as a Tool of Non-violent Influence on Aggressor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, the Russian bloggers and journalists are actively working to\u00a0discredit\u00a0Ukraine in\u00a0the international community&#8217;s eyes in the context of the termless\u00a0blockade of the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia. Different methods of generalization of the facts, the shift of the\u00a0focus and even the outright lies are used for achieving the goal. In this regard, InformNapalm.org together with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/infographics_ua\">@Infographics_ua<\/a>\u00a0decided to clarify the situation with the termless\u00a0blockade of the Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Let us remind you\u00a0that the action started at noon on September 20,\u00a02015, at the administrative border of the Kherson Oblast\u00a0and the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The action is\u00a0carried out by\u00a0the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar activists. It is aimed at blocking the trade with the peninsula at &#8216;Chongar&#8217;, &#8216;Chaplinka&#8217; and &#8216;Kalanchak&#8217;\u00a0checkpoints. It is planned to\u00a0block the movement of trucks with food and other goods, which move\u00a0towards\u00a0the peninsula. Protection of the public order is provided by a special division of the Office of Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kherson Oblast\u00a0of Ukraine and by the &#8216;Kherson&#8217; battalion.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0public action primarily affects the trade and transport\u00a0organizations which have\u00a0commercial relations with the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine in the Crimea. This\u00a0trade embargo can\u00a0also impact\u00a0on the variety\u00a0of food and household goods in the Crimean market in the nearest future, since the transport infrastructure between the Crimea and Russia, bypassing Ukraine, is extremely limited due to geographical reasons, and it will be extremely difficult and costly for the Russian side to piece out the\u00a0shortage of supplies from mainland Ukraine. This can result in significant financial losses for the Russian authorities. Many Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar public figures propose to extend the blockade also on\u00a0other types of raw material supply: electricity, water and telecommunication networks. In addition, the Crimea hosts\u00a0the main base of the Black Sea Fleet and a large military contingent, which must also be prevented from providing the goods from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/crimeablockadeeng.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5584 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/crimeablockadeeng.png\" alt=\"crimeablockadeeng\" width=\"1100\" height=\"2475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/crimeablockadeeng.png 1100w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/crimeablockadeeng-133x300.png 133w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/crimeablockadeeng-768x1728.png 768w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/crimeablockadeeng-455x1024.png 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please note that the annexed Crimea was previously also under various economic sanctions the EU, US and other countries. So Ukraine, being\u00a0a victim of the Russian aggression, not only can, but must use the same sanctions to impact the economy of the aggressor.<\/p>\n<p>Many states have restricted or banned its companies and individuals to carry out any financial or commercial activities with the temporarily occupied territory of the Crimean peninsula. Visa and Mastercard, as well as various international electronic payment systems do not work there. Residence in the annexed Crimea currently does not allow foreign currency payments via SWIFT or obtain a Schengen and many other visas.<\/p>\n<p>Taking into account that\u00a0the &#8216;hybrid&#8217;\u00a0war is waged against Ukraine, and Russia sponsors the\u00a0terror in Donbas, the Ukrainian side could rightly cease all economic relations with the occupied territories, which would be an additional step in the application of its own sanctions against the aggressor. Furthermore, according to the IV Geneva Convention, all the commitments to ensure the lives of citizens in the occupied territories are assigned to the occupier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Infographics by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/infographics_ua\">infographics_ua<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/13249-blokada-kryma-ynstrument-grazhdanskogo-vlyyanyya-na-agressora\">Original article<\/a>\u00a0by Aleksei Berezin, translated by Oleksandr Klymenko<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, the Russian bloggers and journalists are actively working to\u00a0discredit\u00a0Ukraine in\u00a0the international community&#8217;s eyes in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[528,5],"tags":[514,548],"class_list":["post-5564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-terrorussians","tag-crimea-blockade","tag-infographics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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Different methods of generalization of the facts, the shift of the\u00a0focus and even the outright lies are used for achieving the goal. In this regard, InformNapalm.org together with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/infographics_ua\">@Infographics_ua<\/a>\u00a0decided to clarify the situation with the termless\u00a0blockade of the Crimea.\r\n\r\nLet us remind you\u00a0that the action started at noon on September 20,\u00a02015, at the administrative border of the Kherson Oblast\u00a0and the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The action is\u00a0carried out by\u00a0the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar activists. It is aimed at blocking the trade with the peninsula at 'Chongar', 'Chaplinka' and 'Kalanchak'\u00a0checkpoints. It is planned to\u00a0block the movement of trucks with food and other goods, which move\u00a0towards\u00a0the peninsula. Protection of the public order is provided by a special division of the Office of Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kherson Oblast\u00a0of Ukraine and by the 'Kherson' battalion.\r\n\r\nThis\u00a0public action primarily affects the trade and transport\u00a0organizations which have\u00a0commercial relations with the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine in the Crimea. This\u00a0trade embargo can\u00a0also impact\u00a0on the variety\u00a0of food and household goods in the Crimean market in the nearest future, since the transport infrastructure between the Crimea and Russia, bypassing Ukraine, is extremely limited due to geographical reasons, and it will be extremely difficult and costly for the Russian side to piece out the\u00a0shortage of supplies from mainland Ukraine. This can result in significant financial losses for the Russian authorities. Many Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar public figures propose to extend the blockade also on\u00a0other types of raw material supply: electricity, water and telecommunication networks. In addition, the Crimea hosts\u00a0the main base of the Black Sea Fleet and a large military contingent, which must also be prevented from providing the goods from Ukraine.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/crimeablockadeeng.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-5584 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/crimeablockadeeng.png\" alt=\"crimeablockadeeng\" width=\"1100\" height=\"2475\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nPlease note that the annexed Crimea was previously also under various economic sanctions the EU, US and other countries. 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