A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 indicated Balukh as a suspect. However, Balukh had never met this person before. Vladimir Balukh said that after the search started, the police of- R cers took him out- side, put him in the car and beat, as well as in- sulted him on account of his ethnic descent. However, the police Pictured: Sentenced to the 320 hours of compulsory labor o7 cers had not been Vladimir Balukh at one of the hearings in the held accountable for Razdolnenskiy court such actions; instead the local court found Balukh guilty of disobedience to a police o7 cer and imposed a penalty in the form of administrative detention for ten days. The activist spent 10 days in detention, repeatedly requested medical treatment, but was repetedly denied. In addition, during the Balukh’s detention, the Razdolnensky department of the Investigative Committee of Russia on November 18, 2015, opened a criminal case against him. Balukh was charged with committing a crime of “publicly insult- ing a representative of authority during the performance of relevant duties”. The criminal case was investigated for two days and submitted to the Razdolnenskiy district Prosecutor. On February 5, 2016, the court found Vladimir Balukh, a Ukrainian, guilty under Art. 319 of the Criminal Code of the RF “insulting a representative of authority” and sen- tenced him to 320 hours of compulsory labor. 4.4. Forced Citizenship According to the data provided by the O7 ce for National Statistics of Ukraine in the 3 statistical digest ‘Population of Ukraine’ , as of January 1, 2013, the total population of ARC and Sevastopol amounted ca. 2,350,000. The Federal Constitutional Law of RF No. 6 provides the granting of automatic Russian citizenship for all Ukrainian citizens who were domiciled and registered in Crimea at the moment of adoption of this law. Therefore, the inhabitants of Crimea, in fact, got a double citizenship 3 http://ukrstat.org/uk/druk/publicat/Arhiv_u/13/Arch_nnas_zb.htm 81