Halya Coynash: Crimea is not a closed subject, Putin. It,s an open wound.
Activists burn flares, shout and carry a banner reading \"Freedom for the Crimean prisoners!\" in Moscow, on May 29, 2016, during a protest in support of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and Ukrainian political activist Alexander Kolchenko.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the "question of Crimea closed" and not up for discussion. There is certainly nothing to discuss as such, but this is not an issue of yesterday's headlines, today's realpolitik. Disappearances, arrests, politically motivated trials and terrorization of Crimean Tatars and all dissident voices are taking place in Ukraine's sovereign territory which Russia invaded and annexed. Business as usual makes our commitment to democratic values as empty as the threats Putin heard and ignored back in February 2014.
