REFERENCE: Point 10 - The Russian Native Residency In Crimea (Part II)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Republic_of_Crimea

Ukraine, meanwhile, continues to claim Crimea as its territory and in 2015 the Ukrainian parliament designated 20 February 2014 as the (official) date of the start of "the temporary occupation of Crimea." On 27 March 2014 100 United Nations member states voted for United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262 affirming the General Assembly's commitment to the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders while 11 member states voted against, 58 abstained and 24 member states absented. Since then six countries (Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Syria, Afghanistan, and North Korea) have publicly recognized Russia's annexation of Crimea while others have stated support for the 16 March 2014 Crimean referendum.

 

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/crimean-tatars-and-russification

Tatar fortunes took yet another dark turn when Russian forces moved to occupy Crimea in 2014. The occupiers immediately began a campaign of persecution against the Tatar community, “outlawing” the Crimean Tatar representative body (the Mejlis) and shutting down a Tatar television channel. The State Department subsequently has cited numerous human rights violations against the Tatar population, including torture, disappearances, and psychiatric abuse. Moreover, since the Russian occupation in 2014, about 10% of Tatars have fled to mainland Ukraine. Many of them have settled in Kherson—another Ukrainian city currently under threat by Russian forces.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting_in_Crimea

Since the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the Russian government has variously promised to alleviate Crimean Tatars' housing conditions and claimed to have resolved the issue. Ruslan Balbek said in 2014 that the register of those wishing to receive land would be updated, while President of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov has claimed that everyone wishing to receive land could receive it. In February 2022, the government of the Republic of Crimea claimed that 180 housing units (108 in Yevpatoria and 72 in Saky Municipality) would soon be completed for distribution to the "rehabilitated peoples" of Crimea (also including Greeks, Bulgarians, Germans, and Armenians) by May.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatars

It was also announced that Crimean Tatars will be required to relinquish coastal lands on which they squatted since their return to Crimea in the early 1990s and be given land elsewhere in Crimea. Crimea stated it needed the relinquished land for "social purposes", since part of this land is occupied by the Crimean Tatars without legal documents of ownership. The situation was caused by the inability of the USSR (and later Ukraine) to sell the land to Crimean Tatars at a reasonable price instead of giving back to the Tatars the land owned before deportation, once they or their descendants returned from Central Asia (mainly Uzbekistan). As a consequence, some Crimean Tatars settled as squatters, occupying land that was and is still not legally registered.

 

https://ctrcenter.org/en/o-nas/pro-krcz

Crimean Tatar Resource Center is a non-governmental organization established in 2015 to ensure the collective rights of the Crimean Tatars as the indigenous people and the individual rights of all residents of Crimea in order to achieve sustainable development.

 

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/crimea-tatar-persecution-russia-ukraine-war-genocide/

In 2023, simply existing as a Crimean Tatar on one’s own land and fighting to preserve one’s cultural identity can result in imprisonment for years on end. Russian authorities have been known to punish Crimean Tatars for expressing their beliefs and advocating for their rights with sentences of 15 or sometimes more than 20 years.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Crimea#Ethnic_flags_of_Crimean_Tatars

During the formation of the short-lived Crimean People's Republic of the Crimean Tatars in 1917, the flag used was a sky-blue flag with a golden tamğa, known as the Kök Bayraq "Blue Banner". A green colored flag was used for religious purposes, and the red colored flag was used as the Tatar's military flag. In 1991 the light blue version is now used as ethnic flag of the Crimean Tatars.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatar_language

Crimean Tatar ... is a Kipchak Turkic language spoken in Crimea and the Crimean Tatar diasporas of Uzbekistan, Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria, as well as small communities in the United States and Canada. It should not be confused with Tatar proper, spoken in Tatarstan and adjacent regions in Russia; the languages are related, but belong to two different subgroups of the Kipchak languages, yet still largely mutually intelligible ... A long-term ban on the study of the Crimean Tatar language following the deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet government has led to the fact that at the moment UNESCO ranked the Crimean Tatar language among the languages under serious threat of extinction (severely endangered).

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea#Tourism

The development of the transport networks brought masses of tourists from central parts of the Russian Empire. At the beginning of the 20th century, a major development of palaces, villas, and dachas began—most of which remain. These are some of the main attractions of Crimea as a tourist destination ... The Soviet government started promoting the healing quality of the local air, lakes and therapeutic muds. It became a "health" destination for Soviet workers, and hundreds of thousands of Soviet tourists visited Crimea ... In the 1990s, Crimea became more of a get-away destination than a "health-improvement" destination. The most visited areas are the south shore of Crimea with cities of Yalta and Alushta, the western shore – Yevpatoria and Saky, and the south-eastern shore – Feodosia and Sudak. According to National Geographic, Crimea was among the top 20 travel destinations in 2013.

 

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