PART 2 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ASPECT OF THE OCCUPATION OF ARC AND THE CITY OF SEVASTOPOL freely receive such public services as drawing-up of passports; entering of data on the previously existing rights for immovable property and transactions with it, lim- itations and encumbrances; re-registration of automobile transport, replacement of driver’s licenses; re-registration and registration of non-proR t organizations etc. 2.5.5. Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian 53 Federation for 2014 Publication date: beginning of 2015. Content: one of the Sections (2.5.) of the Report is devoted to Crimea and the so- called “transitional period”. This Section contains information on complaints to the Commissioner on the violations of the right to freedom of speech and expression, freedom of assembly, as well as appeals related to the fact of detention of journal- ists during mass public events. A signiR cant number of appeals primarily concern issues related to the acquisition of Russian citizenship. The di7 culties and issues include the documentary conR rmation of rights, including the real estate proper- ty right; the di7 culties with re-registration of real estate, vehicles, driver’s licenses, business entities (legal entities) etc. There is a lack of uniform resolution of disputes initiated under the Ukrainian legislation. “There are concerns about a series of cases of redistribution of property that looks like raid on businesses and real estate”. The legal and administrative barriers are associated with overcoming diT erences in the Russian and Ukrainian legislation and law enforcement practices. There remains a number of legal and law enforcement “gray areas”. 2.5.6. Annual Report of the Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the observance and 54 protection of human rights and freedoms in 2014 Publication date: 05 May 2015. Content: The Report includes Section “2. Observance of human rights in the tem- porarily occupied territory of Ukraine – the AR of Crimea”, which contains informa- tion about the violations in Crimea, namely related to the right to life and personal immunity, freedom of movement, freedom of peaceful assembly, right to choose citizenship, the right of religious communities, obstruction of activity of the Mejlis, 53 http://ombudsmanrf.org/www/upload/R les/docs/appeals/doklad2014.pdf 54 http://www.ombudsman.gov.ua/ua/all-news/pr/5515-qv-schorichna-dopovid-upovnovazhenogo-pro-stan- doderzhannya-ta-zaxistu-pr/ 34
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