The prosecution said in a “high-profile political appointment”, Vladimir Putin appointed Ovsiannikov as the Governor of Sevastopol in Crimea on July 28 2016. Prosecutor Paul Jarvis said it ...

where prosecutor Paul Jarvis said Sevastopol was "a strategically significant city so far as the Russian annexation of Crimea was concerned". In 2017, Ovsiannikov won an election for governor of ...

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, 48, the former mayor of Sevastopol in illegally annexed Crimea, is facing seven ... During his closing argument earlier, prosecutor Paul Jarvis reminded jurors that on ...

A former Russian government minister who was appointed as a governor in illegally annexed Crimea by Vladimir Putin has been found guilty of circumventing sanctions, in the first case of its kind.

A man suspected of plotting to kill Oleh Synehubov, Kharkiv governor, and Viacheslav Zadorenko, Derhachi military ...

Explainer-Where Is Crimea and Why Is It Contested? (Reuters) - The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.

All three deny the charges and their trial began on Tuesday at Southwark Crown Court, where prosecutor Paul Jarvis said Sevastopol was "a strategically significant city so far as the Russian ...