PART 4 A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA The apartments of other activists who were familiar with Alexander Kostenko have been searched within the framework of this criminal case. The prosecution was rep- resented by the Crimean Prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya. In May, Alexander Kostenko was sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in a penal colo- ny; he was found guilty of violating par. b of Part 2 of Article 115 (intentional inU ic- tion of bodily harm) and Part 1 of Article 222 (illegal possession of R rearms) of the Criminal Code of the RF. On August 26, the Crimean Supreme Court changed the sentence to 3 years and 11 months cumulatively. In the fall of 2015, Alexander Kostenko was taken out of Crimea and currently he is in the penal colony #5 in Kirovo-Chepetsk, Kirov region, Russian Federation. ‘Vladimir Balukh’s case’ The charge: insulting a representative of authority (Article 319 of the Criminal Code of the RF). In November 2013, Vladimir Balukh planted a Ukrainian U ag on the roof of his wife’s house, which he did not remove after the occupation of the peninsula. Vladimir Bal- ukh was detained for the R rst time in July 2014. The police did not allow him to the meeting of residents of Serebryanka village with the Chairman of the “State Coun- cil” of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov. The police arrested him for “failure to comply with the legitimate demands of the police”. Later, at the end of April 2015, the house where Vladimir Balukh lived with his partner in Serebryanka village was searched by the police together with the FSS o7 cers, during which they took the U ag of Ukraine oT the roof of the house. The reason for the search was a statement about the theft of tractor spare parts in Chernyshevo village, located 30 km away from the place of the search, and application to the police from an unknown person stating that Balukh allegedly was selling the tractor spare parts. At the time of the search Balukh was out, and the search report was not drawn up. On November 14, 2015, the house of the Balu- kh’s partner was searched again. The reason for the search this time was a criminal case on a car theft in the nearby Razdolnoe village. The main witness in the case on spare parts theft, and in Pictured: Vladimir Balukh the case on car theft was the same person, which 80