Beginning September 3, 2026, CrimeaWatch formally contacted twelve organizations newly documented on this site as having taken part in forming the Public Integrity Council. Each received the specific facts recorded about it — the decisions of the High Qualification Commission of Judges that admitted it, the compositions it staffed, its delegates by name — and five calendar days to respond before the record is treated as final. For two further organizations no contact channel could be established, and this post states that plainly rather than recording them as having declined to comment.

Beginning August 31, 2026, CrimeaWatch formally contacted all 40 organizations currently documented in its Entities section — every law firm, media outlet, advocacy group, and civic organization whose institutional conduct is recorded on this site in connection with the Public Integrity Council’s Crimea-recognition methodology. Each organization received the full text of its published profile and five calendar days to respond before that record is treated as final.

This is not a courtesy extended at our discretion. It is methodology, applied without exception, to every entity this site names.