In the briefing "Religious communities in Crimea: the rights and persecution on political grounds", held on 15 April in Ukrainian crisis center media center speakers told reporters about the true state of religious life in the occupied Crimea, and pressure of the occupying power on religious communities of peninsula.

The event was attended by the Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine "Ummah" Said Ismagilov, Archbishop of Chernigov and Nijinsky Yevstratiy, Ukrainian scholar in Religious Science, a leading researcher of the Institute of Philosophy n. a. H.Skovoroda NAS of Ukraine Oleksandr Sagan and pastor of the Protestant Church "New Life", Bishop Anatoly Kalyuzhny.