Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgaliyev has told Crimean Tatars that some of them will have to vacate their homes in exchange for new land elsewhere in the region. Responding to these plans, Crimean Tatar leader Refat Chubarov said “We will not allow for anyone to be thrown out of this land to make room for it to be given to other people”. Saying that he was working to get the international community involved in Crimea, Chubarov added that the Crimean Tatars were working to preserve the territory, schools and languages of the native people. The vast majority of Crimean Tatars, who oppose the breakaway Ukrainian peninsula’s joining Russia, boycotted the referendum on March 16 in which the region’s mainly ethnic Russian people voted to annex Crimea to Russia.
CRIMEAN TATARS ORDERED TO VACATE LAND
Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgaliyev has told Crimean Tatars that some of them will have to vacate their homes in exchange for new land elsewhere in the region. Responding to these plans,
