KIEV. Dec 31 – The activists of the so-called 'civil blockade' of Crimea are removing all checkpoints on the border between Ukraine and the peninsula, says Lenur Islyamov, one of the organizers of Crimea's trade and power blockade that was started some time ago by a number of Ukrainian civil activists.

"As concerns the commodity part of the blockade, the government has finally heard us, and the directive it has adopted, one-legged and vague though it is, is generally consistent with the spirit in which we'd like to see it, and therefore we are removing all checkpoints - we've had six of them, two each on every road. They continue to operate in a monitoring mode and won't stop anyone," Islyamov said on the 112-Ukraine TV channel on Thursday.