Tag: Halya Coynash

Putin Conducting ‘Hybrid Genocide’ Against Crimean Tatars, Muzhdabayev Says

April 9, 2015

Staunton, April 7 — Moscow officials are asserting and some in the West are accepting the notion that local officials in Crimea are to blame for any problems with the registration of Crimean Tatar media outlets such as ATR television, but that is a lie in the case of the former and a self-deception on […]

Russian Occupation Authorities Move To Close Crimean News Agency

February 22, 2015

Staunton, February 22 — Ever more often, life in Vladimir Putin’s world imitates not art but Soviet anecdotes. The latest move of his agents in occupied Crimea — to deny registration to and thus set the stage for shutting down Crimea’s QHA news agency — brings yet another of those anecdotes to mind. The story […]