The assembly of Crimea’s Muslim Tatar community is moving to Kiev, after Russian authorities officially declared it an “extremist organization.”
The Mejlis of the Tatar community was officially set up as an executive body to represent the historic community in Crimea in the 1990s, when the peninsula emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union as a part of Ukraine. Tatars make up 12 percent of Crimea’s population but have suffered multiple campaigns of prosecution by Soviet and Russian imperial authorities. The Mejlis’s goal was to prevent further abuses against the Tatar community.
After Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, however, …read more
Source: Newsweek
