Shopping center Depo't center invites you to the photo exhibition "Stories from the occupied Crimea"

This is documentary evidence of repression against Ukrainian citizens, in particular against representatives of the Crimean Tatars. The presented photos were taken by photo artists from 2014 to 2019, while the authors were still able to travel to Crimea. The Russian occupation administration banned them from visiting the peninsula for a period of 10 to 35 years.

During the opening of the photo exhibition, the head of the ZMINA Center for Human Rights, Tetyana Pechonchyk, emphasized the fact that the occupying Russian authorities are holding 15 journalists behind bars on politically motivated charges: "Most of them are Crimean Tatar citizen journalists who cooperated with the Crimean Solidarity initiative." that unites families of political prisoners, lawyers, activists. These are Seyran Saliev, Marlen Asanov, Timur Ibrahimov, Server Mustafayev, Osman Arifmemetov, Remzi Bekirov, Ruslan Suleymanov, Rustem Sheikhaliyev. And over the past year, the occupation authorities imprisoned three more citizen journalists – Iryna Danylovych, Vilen Temeryanov, and Ernes Ametov. Therefore, we can say that every tenth Crimean political prisoner is imprisoned because of his journalistic activities."


In October of last year, the photo exhibition "Stories from occupied Crimea" was presented at the inter-parliamentary summit of the Crimean Platform (Zagreb, Croatia), as well as in December during the solemn events on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Representation of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Kropyvnytskyi became the second city where the photo exhibition "Stories from Occupied Crimea" was presented to a wide audience of Ukrainian viewers. Previously, it was held in Khmelnytskyi, and it will also be shown in Chernivtsi, Odesa, Lutsk and Lviv.


The photo exhibition was created by the ZMINA Center for Human Rights in cooperation with the Representation of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

We will remind you that the business projects of the Foxtrot Group of Companies are not the first to help the resistance of the Crimean Tatars to the Russian occupation: in 2018, in the column hall of the KMDA, the public organization "Crimean Family" together with the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People held a charity event "Helping Hand" with the support of TM "Foxtrot". According to preliminary data, joint efforts managed to collect 107 thousand hryvnias. The funds will be transferred to Crimean Tatar families to support their children.