Summarizing the interim results of monitoring transparency and freedom of speech, the Crimean Human Rights Field Mission states that there are signs of systematic work on the monopolization of information space, including through administrative pressure on independent media, on the peninsula.

Attacks on the media in Crimea increase every month, limiting freedom of speech in several ways. This was announced by representatives of Ukrainian mass media, who continue to work in Crimea, at the press conference on 2 February 2015 in Kyiv.