A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 People lost touch with him on March 15, 2014. The day before the ‘referendum’ on the status of the Crimea he wrote his last Facebook post, and since then he has nev- er been seen or heard from. ‘Vasily Chernysh has disappeared, and there is indirect evidence that he may be no longer alive ... Vasily was very bright, bold, and helpful person. He and Sergey Hadzhynov helped me in Sevastopol to go around all police stations and detention facilities to + nd Katya and Shura ...’ Alexey Gritsenko, one of the AutoMaidan leaders, Facebook, March 3, 2015. One of the Automaidan leaders Alexey said that during Euromaidan protests Vasily was in Kyiv and then returned to Sevastopol, where he had an apartment. Accord- ing to the activist, they found out that Chernysh was taken from his apartment by the police. “The police came and took him with them. We found out through his neighbor” that he was taken oR . Alexey Gritsenko, one of Automaidan leaders, in an interview for ‘Crimea. Realities’, November 6, 2015. One of those who actively joined the search for Chernysh in the spring of 2014 was the R lm director Oleg Sentsov, who was later arrested by the FSS and charged with terrorism. Timur Shaymardanov, Seyran Zinedinov At the end of May, 2014, two Crimean Tatars, members of the Ukrainian House or- ganization, were reported missing in Simferopol – the 34-year-old businessman Timur Shaymardanov and the 33-year- old hauler Seyran Zinedinov. They were close associates, participated in demon- strations against annexation of Crimea and helped the Ukrainian military dur- ing the blockage of their military units by the ‘self-defense’ and ‘little green men’. According to Timur Shaymardanov, Le- onid Korzh, one of the activists of the Ukrainian House, disappeared on May 67