Tag: Cemilev

Russian Occupation Of Crimea ‘Worse Than Soviet’ One

March 24, 2015

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, March 23 — “The Russian occupation regime” in Crimea is “worse than the Soviet one,” according to Mustafa Cemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatars, in large part because Vladimir Putin couldn’t find a Ramzan Kadyrov-type leader among them and thus has chosen the path of direct rather than indirect repression instead. Speaking before […]

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Crimean Tatars Under Russian Threat Even as Putin ‘Rehabilitates’ Them

April 22, 2014

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, April 22 – In what is becoming a defining feature of the Putin regime, the Russian authorities are saying things that many people want to hear at exactly the same moment that they are doing things that directly contradict what they say. Today, the victims of that are the Crimean Tatars, a Moscow commentator […]

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