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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.

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Crimean Tatar activists' family members reportedly detained:

By the Crimea Desk of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service

KAMYANKA, Ukraine -- A Ukrainian human rights groups says Russian-imposed authorities in Ukraine's occupied Crimea region have detained family members of a Crimean Tatar activist.

Crimean Solidarity, which has members in Crimea as well as Ukrainian government-controlled territory, says relatives of activist Zarema Kulametova were detained on September 4 when police searched the family's home in the eastern town of Staryy Krym.

Kulametova's husband, Zekkiy, and their adult daughter Riana were taken away after they argued with police who were conducting the search, the rights group says.

Riana Kulametova told RFE/RL earlier on September 4 that the authorities detained her activist mother in a local park while she was serving a community-work sentence she received in April on a charge of insulting a police officer.

Masked men in military uniforms on September 4 also searched the home of another Crimean Tatar activist, Marlen Mustafayev.

Mustafayev's relatives say the searches started in his house in the village of Kamyanka early in the morning. They say the authorities provided no explanation for why they were conducting the search.

Rights groups and Western governments have denounced what they describe as a campaign of repression by the Russian-installed authorities who are targeting members of the Turkic-speaking Crimean Tatar community and others who have spoken out against Moscow's seizure and illegal annexation of the peninsula.

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