PART 3 THE AFTERMATHS OF THE OCCUPATION: A POLITICAL REPRESSIONS SYSTEM Screenshot of the website of the so-called Crimean Prosecutor’s Offi ce of January 20, 2016 This illegal practice may become common using such alleged charges as partici- pation in the Euromaidan protests or support for the protests or partaking in the so-called International Public Committee for the protection for the rights of people Injured on Maidan, established in March 2014. In connection with the real threat to life, health, and personal freedom, the vast ma- jority of journalists, public R gures, and human rights activists were forced to leave Crimea. Currently, active purges of the civil society are underway in Crimea. 3.2. The ‘Risk Groups’ in the Political Repressions System The occupation authorities are actively using all the tools tried and tested in the law and practice of the Russian Federation to suppress any alternative point of view for the complete elimination of an independent civil society in the peninsula. “These authorities, this regime established today in Crimea are much worse than the Soviet rule. Soviet authorities at least followed some formal procedures: arrest, investigation, and trial, albeit just for window-dressing 40