The leader of the Crimean Tatars has warned that, 12 months after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, his community is living in an “atmosphere of fear and intimidation”, and is being weakened by migration.
Mustafa Dzhemilev, a Soviet-era dissident who has been thrown out of Crimea, said in Brussels on 17 March that a United Nations calculation from last summer that 20,000 of the peninsula’s 300,000-strong Tatar population had left was far lower than the current total. He and other leaders of the Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group once deported en masse by Stalin to central Asia, are trying to persuade …read more
Source: European Voice
