PART 4 A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA After the Russian laws came to force in Crimea, the accusations of extremism from the security forces became more frequent. During 2014-2015, the Crimean Field Mission received calls from the media representatives, who had been demand- ed to remove the information containing allegedly separatist appeals or extrem- ist statements from the corresponding media websites by the Prosecutor O7 ce representatives. In March 2015, the Crimean journalists faced a new type of repressions, namely, the accusations of separatism. According to the amendments to the Criminal Code, this article envisage a penalty of up to four years of imprisonment or up to five years if the calls are spread through the media or the Internet. In the case that the RF legislation is not enough, the local authorities adopted the acts restricting the rights of the media. For example, the new rules for journalist ac- creditation in Crimea provide the selective restriction of access of the media to the representatives of the Crimean authorities. The mass media re-registration was used extensively as an instrument to oust the remaining independent media from the Crimean media scene. According to the Field Human Rights Center, the number of registered media as of April 1, 2015 reduced by 88% compared to the number of media at the beginning of 2014. At least 15 media experienced a biased and often unlawful denial of issuance of registration and licensing documents. Almost all local independent radio stations which failed to take part in the tender for the redistribution of frequencies disappeared from the Crimean broadcasting space. In 2015, a new trend was unleashed – since October the Federal Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications Supervision Service (Roskom- nadzor) began to block access to the “undesirable” on-line resources. The R rst black- listed Crimean resources include the Center for Investigative Reporting, IA ‘Events of Crimea’ and BlackSeaNews, later the resources from mainland Ukraine – Ukrainian Pravda, Censor.Net and other were added to the blacklist. Private radio stations In February 2015, almost all Crimean private radio companies lost the right to use their broadcasting frequencies. According to the results of the tender, the right to use the frequencies belonging to the Crimean companies was given to major Rus- sian media holdings. 100