Nikolai Berg is a correspondent in Crimea for RFE/RL's Russian Service
Tens of thousands of irreplaceable cultural artifacts have been seized by Russia in occupied parts of Ukraine, in a campaign critics say is part looting and part historical revisionism.
Crimea is facing a shortage of gasoline after Ukraine last month bombed the only bridge connecting the Russian-controlled peninsula to Russia.
Russians who had been actively investing in Crimean properties after Moscow occupied the peninsula in 2014 abruptly stopped doing so following the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, with sales of residential real estate falling by 72 percent in just a year.
