Crimea

Beginning in 2014, the occupied Crimea is undergoing change both in the political-legal sphere and in the information. The mass media are most affected by the harassment of the new government. The mass media was forced to immediately change the registration and start acting in the interests of the Kremlin. In the event of a refusal, the editions, radio stations and TV channels were closed, searched and seized of all the materials produced. Journalists were threatened and persecuted.

The oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) is important, but yet poorly studied physicochemical parameter of natural and man transformed waters. The results of in situ measurements of ORP, pH and total concentration of ions of several natural springs in the Crimean mountains and at two wells with a negative ORP (similar to the healing water „Naftusia” of Truskavets resort) are presented.