PART 4 A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA tried to run away and hide in the hostel, but was caught and shot with one bullet in the torso and one in the head. Captain Yarmolenko managed to hide in a room. ‘I was also preparing to move when I heard some clapping sounds like shots. I went out to see stun grenades thrown inside the hostel. Russian military were running through the corridors with grenades. ‘What are they doing here?’ our men shouted. ‘What’s the matter?’ The Russians did not respond and went on storming the hostel. Then I heard shots.’ Soldier Andrey (as his relatives still live in the Crimea, he asked not to men- tion his surname) in an interview to the Facts newspaper, March 2014. The murder charge under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was brought against Evgeny Zaytsev, a Russian sergeant. The case was considered in the Crimean garrison military court by the judge Rizvan Zubairov, who previously worked in the Grozny garrison military court of the Rus- sian Federation. According to the Crimean Field Mission, on March 13, 2015 the sentence was imposed within this criminal case under Article 105 ‘Murder’. According to S. Ka- rachevsky’s brother-in-law, the Russian Sergeant Evgeny Zaytsev was conditionally sentenced to two years in prison for the murder of the Ukrainian Major. The defend- ant Evgeny Zaytsev has not been placed in custody during the investigation and the trial, continuing to perform military service in the same mode as before the murder of S. Karachevsky. Stanislav Karachevsky is survived by his wife and two children. 4.2. Abductions and Tortures of Activists During the Occupation of Crimea The seizure of Crimea by the Russian Federation was accompanied by abductions and tortures of pro-Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar activists, volunteers helping the Ukrainian army as well as journalists, photographers, workers of culture and art who openly spoke against the occupation of Crimea or documented the events taking place on the peninsula. However, some ordinary people have been mistaken for the alleged “representatives of radical organizations’. The body of one of the abductees (Reshat Ametov, a Crimean Tatar) was later found with the signs of tortures. Another several individuals (Ivan Bondarets, Vladislav 58