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I think in the future to the problem of communication is no longer expensive, because communication is very important in the future, it could be the price of satellite communications will be more expensive and sophisticated, especially in the future will be the discovery of communications technologies more sophisticated like mass teleportation , hopefully this is not just a dream, just like ancient people who dream to walk on moon ... 
Missing Crimean Tatar Edem Asanov found dead
5-year-old Crimean Tatar, Edem Asanov, has been found dead in an abandoned sanatorium in Yevpatoria, a week after he disappeared on Sept 29. Edem Asanov was not politically active, and according to his sister was a peaceful person who was not inclined to conflict.
Refat Chubarov, head of the Mejlis or representative-executive body of the Crimean Tatar People says that Edem was hanged. He believes that the authorities are trying to establish a mood of terror and fear in Crimean society. Edem Asanov’s funeral will take place on Tuesday.
There have been four abductions or disappearances since Sept 27, and at least three other Crimean Tatar families will almost certainly be going through hell, together with the Asanov family.
In the early evening of Sept 27, two young Crimean Tatars were abducted from Sary-Su near Belogorsk in the Crimea. 19-year-old Islam Dzhepparov and his 23-year-old cousin Dzhevdet Islamov were forced into a dark blue Volkswagen Transporter and taken away in the direction of Feodosiya.
The claims from the police and FSB [Russian security service] that they know nothing about the abduction have been met with scepticism, which is exacerbated by their failure to find the young men despite having all details, including the minivan’s registration number.
Hundreds of Crimean Tatars gathered the next day outside Islam Dzhepparov’s home. Islam’s father had a meeting with the head of the occupation government Sergei Aksyonov on Oct. 1. Abdureshit Dzhepaparov says that everything was done to provoke Crimean Tatars to make measures in retaliations. “On the roofs around the building where the meeting took place there were a lot of snipers, people saw jeeps with men carrying machine guns, and around the city there were a lot of soldiers.”
Two days later, on Monday Sept 29, Edem Asanov set off for work at the Prymorye sanatorium in Yevpatoriya. We now know why he did not arrive.
23-year-old Crimean Tatar Apselymov Eskender has not been seen since Oct 3 when he left his flat in Simferopol and headed for work. He did not arrive, and there is no answer from his telephone. Shevket Namatullayev, a Crimean journalist, has passed on details about how the young man was dressed and a request from his parents to phone if people have any information
It is increasingly difficult to believe in any chance with these abductions or disappearances. They coincide with a major offensive against the Mejlis, or representative-executive body of the Crimean Tatar people and Muslims in the Crimea. Veteran Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemiliev has spoken of 18 disappearances of Crimean Tatars since Russian invaded and annexed the Crimea in March this year.
Refat Chubarov recalls chillingly relevant words written by Memorial about the Northern Caucuses. “Abductions are carried out by staff both of the local, and the federal enforcement bodies. A number of the abductions take place according to the classic, “Chechen” scenario, when armed men in masks burst into a home and take the person they want away. However many abductions are carried out very ‘professionally’: a person leaves his home and doesn’t return, or later he’s found murdered.”
The almost certain murder of Edem Asanov, the abduction of two young Crimean Tatars and disappearance of a fourth young man of similar age, against the background of all other repressive measures, can only heighten the suspicion that the Crimean puppet regime and those pulling its strings in Moscow want to intimidate the Crimean Tatars and force them to leave their homeland.
http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1412597376
5-year-old Crimean Tatar, Edem Asanov, has been found dead in an abandoned sanatorium in Yevpatoria, a week after he disappeared on Sept 29. Edem Asanov was not politically active, and according to his sister was a peaceful person who was not inclined to conflict.
Refat Chubarov, head of the Mejlis or representative-executive body of the Crimean Tatar People says that Edem was hanged. He believes that the authorities are trying to establish a mood of terror and fear in Crimean society. Edem Asanov’s funeral will take place on Tuesday.
There have been four abductions or disappearances since Sept 27, and at least three other Crimean Tatar families will almost certainly be going through hell, together with the Asanov family.
In the early evening of Sept 27, two young Crimean Tatars were abducted from Sary-Su near Belogorsk in the Crimea. 19-year-old Islam Dzhepparov and his 23-year-old cousin Dzhevdet Islamov were forced into a dark blue Volkswagen Transporter and taken away in the direction of Feodosiya.
The claims from the police and FSB [Russian security service] that they know nothing about the abduction have been met with scepticism, which is exacerbated by their failure to find the young men despite having all details, including the minivan’s registration number.
Hundreds of Crimean Tatars gathered the next day outside Islam Dzhepparov’s home. Islam’s father had a meeting with the head of the occupation government Sergei Aksyonov on Oct. 1. Abdureshit Dzhepaparov says that everything was done to provoke Crimean Tatars to make measures in retaliations. “On the roofs around the building where the meeting took place there were a lot of snipers, people saw jeeps with men carrying machine guns, and around the city there were a lot of soldiers.”
Two days later, on Monday Sept 29, Edem Asanov set off for work at the Prymorye sanatorium in Yevpatoriya. We now know why he did not arrive.
23-year-old Crimean Tatar Apselymov Eskender has not been seen since Oct 3 when he left his flat in Simferopol and headed for work. He did not arrive, and there is no answer from his telephone. Shevket Namatullayev, a Crimean journalist, has passed on details about how the young man was dressed and a request from his parents to phone if people have any information
It is increasingly difficult to believe in any chance with these abductions or disappearances. They coincide with a major offensive against the Mejlis, or representative-executive body of the Crimean Tatar people and Muslims in the Crimea. Veteran Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemiliev has spoken of 18 disappearances of Crimean Tatars since Russian invaded and annexed the Crimea in March this year.
Refat Chubarov recalls chillingly relevant words written by Memorial about the Northern Caucuses. “Abductions are carried out by staff both of the local, and the federal enforcement bodies. A number of the abductions take place according to the classic, “Chechen” scenario, when armed men in masks burst into a home and take the person they want away. However many abductions are carried out very ‘professionally’: a person leaves his home and doesn’t return, or later he’s found murdered.”
The almost certain murder of Edem Asanov, the abduction of two young Crimean Tatars and disappearance of a fourth young man of similar age, against the background of all other repressive measures, can only heighten the suspicion that the Crimean puppet regime and those pulling its strings in Moscow want to intimidate the Crimean Tatars and force them to leave their homeland.
http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1412597376
And it will certainly increase the number of Crimean Tatars who accept Cemilev’s earlier argument that Russia wants a Crimea without Crimean Tatars.
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Does he also explain in this context why Tatar was made an official language in Crimea, while Tatars are guaranteed a percentage of seats in the Parliament, something that Ukraine failed to do over the 20+ years of occupation?
Also, 18 Tatars disappeared? Out of a population of Crimea of 2+ million? That's like <0.0009%, which is HUGE!
Have they tried to look for them on the battlefields in East-Ukraine, with the Nazi battalions genociding ethnic Russians by the hundreds?Let's bring some balance to the Western propaganda.
An Op-Edge by Nadezhda Kevorkova, a war correspondent who has covered the events of the Arab Spring, military and religious conflicts around the world, and the anti-globalization movement.
Russian wife of a Crimean Tatar hero
http://rt.com/op-edge/192864-crimean-tatars-wwii-air-force/
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“Do you want to talk to the Russian widow of our Crimean Tatar hero? You’ll hear the opinion of a Russian who knows our people, though her view is different,” a Crimean Tatar family offers.
“Different view” means a positive assessment of Crimea becoming part of Russia.
“Different view” means a positive assessment of Crimea becoming part of Russia.
A memorial plate to a Crimean Tatar fighter pilot, Hero of Soviet Union.
Disappearances on the Rise in Occupied Crimea, Reflecting Growing Illegality There
by Paul Goble
Paul Goble is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia. He has served as director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn, and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia.
Since the Anschluss, 18 Crimean Tatars have “disappeared,” three of them in the last week alone, Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Cemilev told a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe yesterday, a reflection of increasing oppression and growing illegality by the Russian occupiers.
Two youths, Isyam Dzhepparov and Dzhevdet Islyamov disappeared on September 27 fromteh village of Sary-Su in the Belgorod district, and a third Edem Asanov disappeared on his way to work in Yevpatoriya (qha.com.ua/za-6-mesyatsev-v-krimu-bez-vesti-propalo-18-krimskih-tatar-djemilev-140295.html).
This wave of disappearances, only one of which has been solved by the discovery of a body, is only part of the oppression that the occupation authorities are inflicting on the Crimean Tatars, Cemilev said. Also in the course of the last week, Russian siloviki conducted 40 searches in Crimean Tatar homes and institutions.
In some but not all cases, the Russian police have opened criminal cases and gone through the motions at least of conducting a search, but their lack of progress has provoked suspicions that the authorities themselves are involved in the disappearances of the Crimean Tatars.
Those suspicions have grown so strong that Sergey Aksyonov, who is the acting head of the Russian occupation, announced that he was creating a special “contact group” attached to the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea to deal with “the affairs of missing Crimean Tatars” (qha.com.ua/po-faktu-propaji-edema-asanova-zaveli-ugolovnoe-delo-140305.html).
But that announcement only underscores the extent of the problem and the failure of the authorities to respond to it in any meaningful way. And it will certainly increase the number of Crimean Tatars who accept Cemilev’s earlier argument that Russia wants a Crimea without Crimean Tatars.
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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.it/2014/10/window-on-eurasia-disappearances-on.html
by Paul Goble
Paul Goble is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia. He has served as director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn, and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia.
Since the Anschluss, 18 Crimean Tatars have “disappeared,” three of them in the last week alone, Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Cemilev told a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe yesterday, a reflection of increasing oppression and growing illegality by the Russian occupiers.
Two youths, Isyam Dzhepparov and Dzhevdet Islyamov disappeared on September 27 fromteh village of Sary-Su in the Belgorod district, and a third Edem Asanov disappeared on his way to work in Yevpatoriya (qha.com.ua/za-6-mesyatsev-v-krimu-bez-vesti-propalo-18-krimskih-tatar-djemilev-140295.html).
This wave of disappearances, only one of which has been solved by the discovery of a body, is only part of the oppression that the occupation authorities are inflicting on the Crimean Tatars, Cemilev said. Also in the course of the last week, Russian siloviki conducted 40 searches in Crimean Tatar homes and institutions.
In some but not all cases, the Russian police have opened criminal cases and gone through the motions at least of conducting a search, but their lack of progress has provoked suspicions that the authorities themselves are involved in the disappearances of the Crimean Tatars.
Those suspicions have grown so strong that Sergey Aksyonov, who is the acting head of the Russian occupation, announced that he was creating a special “contact group” attached to the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea to deal with “the affairs of missing Crimean Tatars” (qha.com.ua/po-faktu-propaji-edema-asanova-zaveli-ugolovnoe-delo-140305.html).
But that announcement only underscores the extent of the problem and the failure of the authorities to respond to it in any meaningful way. And it will certainly increase the number of Crimean Tatars who accept Cemilev’s earlier argument that Russia wants a Crimea without Crimean Tatars.
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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.it/2014/10/window-on-eurasia-disappearances-on.html
21 Ways Life in Crimea has Changed Since the Russian Anschluss
by Paul Goble
Paul Goble is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia. He has served as director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn, and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia.
The Russian occupation of Crimea has affected residents of the Ukrainian peninsula in large ways and small. Now, Novy Region-2 has published a list of 21 ways in which life has changed for all the residents of that region, establishing a useful checklist for all concerned (nr2.com.ua/hots/Okkupacija_Kryma/Krym-do-okkupacii-i-posle-81493.html).
There are other, more high-profile changes that affect the Crimean Tatars, for example, but here is a list of changes that the site suggests are affecting everyone in Russian-occupied Crimea
Vodka costs more and isn’t sold after 10:00 pm.
Residents can no longer take part in spontaneous political meetings, “even if they want to thank the authorities and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin personally.”
Crimeans can no longer rent out rooms to visitors.
Crimeans are to be drafted into the Russian army and serve not in Yalta but in Chechnay, Daghestan, the Far North and the Far East.
Pregnant women can’t “hope for direct compensation for the birth” of children. Any money the state does give them will only be for their children and well into the future at that.
Those with Russian passports and Crimean residence permits can’t travel abroad for vacations: they are expected to stay in Crime “or go to Sochi and become patriots.”
Crimean residents can no longer make money by serving as informal taxi drivers: there simply aren’t enough visitors to allow them to operate.
Because Moscow doesn’t allow elections for mayors any more, Crimeans are not subjected to a constant barrage of campaign literature and promises.
Those who served in the Ukrainian army may get a chance to serve again – in the Russian one.
Participating in demonstrations no longer brings in money from the authorities; it can lead to “up to 15 years in prison.”
“Seven parties of Russian nationalists will monitor suspicious ‘Russians and Crimean Tatars’ who have been subject for 23 years to the influence of ‘Banderite propaganda’ in Ukraine.”
Crimeans who have received Russian passports are learning about an important aspect of Russian geography: the location of prison camps in various parts of the Russian Federation.
Crimeans won’t get paid for taking part in May Day or City Day holiday marches. They also won’t be allowed “to carry their own signs or shout their own slogans when they pass the tribune.”
Crimeans long accustomed to cursing their own presidents on social networks are having to learn that now they must never do that. Instead, they must praise whatever the Russian rpesident does.
Crimean school children are having to forget much that they had been taught by “’falsifiers from Ukraine’” about such subjects as the Mongol yoke and the terror famine. “How could Russians survive hundreds of years under the Tatar yoke?”
Crimean residents are now having to learn not to be proud of themselves and their families but of the Russian state.
Crimeans also now have to remember that “there is no sex in Russia just as there was none in the Soviet Union.” They can no longer be tolerant of gays or lesbians, and they have to remember that they must “love a young woman just as they do the Motherland, the army, the president, and the Fatherland.”
They have to adapt to Russian dietary traditions including some that are very confusing involving Russians who like Ukrainian dishes but may not call them that.
“Young people of Crimea must become accustomed … to ‘a second national-regional language’ if not for [themselves], then for [their] children in schools.” And they must speak it better than Ukrainian because they may be sent anywhere in Russia in the future.
Crimeans can “curse other nationalities (for example, Ukrainians and their culture) in blogs and social networks only if they are in Ukraine. In the Russian Federation,” on the other hand, that can lead to jail. But the list of approved and disapproved peoples keeps changing “after each ‘reset’ in ties between the Russian Federation and the United States.” It is thus best to avoid “the nationality question altogether.”
And Crimeans must now always carry their passports because they may be asked for them by officials, something that wasn’t true six months ago.
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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.it/2014/10/window-on-eurasia-21-ways-life-in.html
by Paul Goble
Paul Goble is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia. He has served as director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn, and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia.
The Russian occupation of Crimea has affected residents of the Ukrainian peninsula in large ways and small. Now, Novy Region-2 has published a list of 21 ways in which life has changed for all the residents of that region, establishing a useful checklist for all concerned (nr2.com.ua/hots/Okkupacija_Kryma/Krym-do-okkupacii-i-posle-81493.html).
There are other, more high-profile changes that affect the Crimean Tatars, for example, but here is a list of changes that the site suggests are affecting everyone in Russian-occupied Crimea
Vodka costs more and isn’t sold after 10:00 pm.
Residents can no longer take part in spontaneous political meetings, “even if they want to thank the authorities and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin personally.”
Crimeans can no longer rent out rooms to visitors.
Crimeans are to be drafted into the Russian army and serve not in Yalta but in Chechnay, Daghestan, the Far North and the Far East.
Pregnant women can’t “hope for direct compensation for the birth” of children. Any money the state does give them will only be for their children and well into the future at that.
Those with Russian passports and Crimean residence permits can’t travel abroad for vacations: they are expected to stay in Crime “or go to Sochi and become patriots.”
Crimean residents can no longer make money by serving as informal taxi drivers: there simply aren’t enough visitors to allow them to operate.
Because Moscow doesn’t allow elections for mayors any more, Crimeans are not subjected to a constant barrage of campaign literature and promises.
Those who served in the Ukrainian army may get a chance to serve again – in the Russian one.
Participating in demonstrations no longer brings in money from the authorities; it can lead to “up to 15 years in prison.”
“Seven parties of Russian nationalists will monitor suspicious ‘Russians and Crimean Tatars’ who have been subject for 23 years to the influence of ‘Banderite propaganda’ in Ukraine.”
Crimeans who have received Russian passports are learning about an important aspect of Russian geography: the location of prison camps in various parts of the Russian Federation.
Crimeans won’t get paid for taking part in May Day or City Day holiday marches. They also won’t be allowed “to carry their own signs or shout their own slogans when they pass the tribune.”
Crimeans long accustomed to cursing their own presidents on social networks are having to learn that now they must never do that. Instead, they must praise whatever the Russian rpesident does.
Crimean school children are having to forget much that they had been taught by “’falsifiers from Ukraine’” about such subjects as the Mongol yoke and the terror famine. “How could Russians survive hundreds of years under the Tatar yoke?”
Crimean residents are now having to learn not to be proud of themselves and their families but of the Russian state.
Crimeans also now have to remember that “there is no sex in Russia just as there was none in the Soviet Union.” They can no longer be tolerant of gays or lesbians, and they have to remember that they must “love a young woman just as they do the Motherland, the army, the president, and the Fatherland.”
They have to adapt to Russian dietary traditions including some that are very confusing involving Russians who like Ukrainian dishes but may not call them that.
“Young people of Crimea must become accustomed … to ‘a second national-regional language’ if not for [themselves], then for [their] children in schools.” And they must speak it better than Ukrainian because they may be sent anywhere in Russia in the future.
Crimeans can “curse other nationalities (for example, Ukrainians and their culture) in blogs and social networks only if they are in Ukraine. In the Russian Federation,” on the other hand, that can lead to jail. But the list of approved and disapproved peoples keeps changing “after each ‘reset’ in ties between the Russian Federation and the United States.” It is thus best to avoid “the nationality question altogether.”
And Crimeans must now always carry their passports because they may be asked for them by officials, something that wasn’t true six months ago.
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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.it/2014/10/window-on-eurasia-21-ways-life-in.html
Call from Moscow to Republic of Crimea or Sevastopol: 20 rubles per minute;
Call from Moscow to any other number, with exception for local numbers: 4.6 rubles per minute.
Call from Moscow to any other number, with exception for local numbers: 4.6 rubles per minute.
Give me some number, i will test my rates.
Unfortunately, some communication issues still exist between Crimea and the mainland.
Just one example, Megafon operator with "All inclusive" plan:
Call from Moscow to Republic of Crimea or Sevastopol: 20 rubles per minute;
Call from Moscow to any other number, with exception for local numbers: 4.6 rubles per minute.
Reason of dramatically higher prices is lack of bandwidth. Only one cable was laid by Rostelecom, it is used to provide internet and telephony for all citizens of the Crimea. Additional cables are planned in 2015.
Just one example, Megafon operator with "All inclusive" plan:
Call from Moscow to Republic of Crimea or Sevastopol: 20 rubles per minute;
Call from Moscow to any other number, with exception for local numbers: 4.6 rubles per minute.
Reason of dramatically higher prices is lack of bandwidth. Only one cable was laid by Rostelecom, it is used to provide internet and telephony for all citizens of the Crimea. Additional cables are planned in 2015.
Crimean people were never happier, also they never lived in richer state and never had higher standard of living. There is reason why there was no violence. Must feel great to be saved from bankrupt debt enslaved country.
I can imagine that feeling
Crimean people were never happier, also they never lived in richer state and never had higher standard of living. There is reason why there was no violence. Must feel great to be saved from bankrupt debt enslaved country.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930708001355
Ukraine Introduces Customs Regime on Crimea Border
Ukraine Introduces Customs Regime on Crimea Border
That's funny because Chubarov himself had a strong ties with hizb-ut-tahrir, which is banned as the terrorist organization.
Chubarov: Crimea is descending into Terror and Fear
It is over 24 hours since two young Crimean Tatars were abducted from Sary-Su near Belogorsk in the Crimea. At around 19.00 on Saturday evening, 19-year-old Islam Dzhepparov and his 23-year-old cousin Dzhevdet Islamov were forced into a dark blue Volkswagen Transporter by men in uniforms. The minivan then headed off in the direction of Feodosiya.
Despite the young men’s families having immediately reported the abduction, and even provided the registration number of the vehicle, there is still no sign of them. The police and FSB are also denying any involvement in their disappearance.
Refat Chubarov, head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, writes of the abduction in response to Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s claim that he “hadn’t heard of any problems”.
Chubarov points out that although the FSB appear to be searching for the young men, “it is clear that the FSB have established total control over the entire society in the Crimea. I can’t believe that a service which follows virtually every Crimean resident would have difficulty establishing who had carried out this latest act of violence against the Crimean Tatars”.
This, he notes, is while the Crimean authorities are continuing to support “at the highest level” the so-called ‘self-defence’ paramilitary units deployed since Russia occupied the Crimea in late February 2014.
These paramilitary thugs were almost certainly responsible for the abduction, torture and murder of 39-year-old Reshat Ametov in March. His abduction from outside the government building in Simferopol where he was holding a solitary protest against Russia’s invasion, was recorded on video. There is no evidence that the authorities are even trying to find his murderers. They are also failing to take any measures to find three pro-Ukrainian civic activists - Timur Shaimardanov; Seiran Zinedinov and Leonid Korzh who disappeared within a week of each other in May.
Among the other problems that Lavrov claimed to have not heard of are the armed searches of Crimean Tatar homes, mosques, and religious schools, over the last weeks as well, of course, as the eviction of the Mejlis from its headquarters in Simferopol and the planned eviction of the Bakhchysarai Mejlis.
Lavrov was presumably hoping that his audience were not aware of the mounting offensive against the Crimean Tatars in their homeland. Russia certainly pulled all levers in their attempts to prevent the Crimean Tatars even being represented at the UN Conference on Indigenous Peoples last week. It was doubtless galling to Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin that the two Crimean Tatar leaders - Mustafa Dzhemiliev and Refat Chubarov - whom Russia has banned from their homeland were able to publicly speak of the mounting offensive being waged against Crimean Tatars.
This may be the reason for the new attack against Mustafa Dzhemiliev via his son Khaiser. The latter has been moved from a detention centre in the Crimea to Russia’s Krasnodar region. This is in flagrant breach of a directive from the European Court of Human Rights which on July 10 applied Rule 39 ordering that Khaiser be released from custody. Instead, the young man has been taken into Russia, with neither his family nor lawyers able to see him.
In August Mustafa Dzhemiliev recounted how he had been approached by Putin’s people who proposed a meeting which, they hinted, could determine whether or not Khaiser Dzhemiliev was released from custody. His suspicions that his son was being used as a hostage are only confirmed by this latest move.
In Sary-Su a large number of Crimean Tatars gathered on Sunday at the home of one of the abducted young men, and are planning to come on Monday. Abdureshit Dzhepparov says that the authorities have overstepped all limits when they force people to the floor in their own homes, and turn up at their schools and mosques. He stressed that Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed Crimean prime minister should explain the authorities’ actions in relation to the Crimean Tatars.
Russia and its occupation regime in the Crimea are demonstrating terrifying contempt for rule of law, including the instructions from the European Court of Human Rights which are binding on Russia.
It is difficult not to suspect that this latest abduction is aimed at instilling an atmosphere of terror and forcing the Crimean Tatars to leave their homeland. Lack of adequate response from the international community will only compound what Refat Chubarov calls “a state of terror and fear”. An unfolding tragedy for the Crimean Tatar people and a frightening moral defeat before the rule of the fist.
http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1411937159
It is over 24 hours since two young Crimean Tatars were abducted from Sary-Su near Belogorsk in the Crimea. At around 19.00 on Saturday evening, 19-year-old Islam Dzhepparov and his 23-year-old cousin Dzhevdet Islamov were forced into a dark blue Volkswagen Transporter by men in uniforms. The minivan then headed off in the direction of Feodosiya.
Despite the young men’s families having immediately reported the abduction, and even provided the registration number of the vehicle, there is still no sign of them. The police and FSB are also denying any involvement in their disappearance.
Refat Chubarov, head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, writes of the abduction in response to Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s claim that he “hadn’t heard of any problems”.
Chubarov points out that although the FSB appear to be searching for the young men, “it is clear that the FSB have established total control over the entire society in the Crimea. I can’t believe that a service which follows virtually every Crimean resident would have difficulty establishing who had carried out this latest act of violence against the Crimean Tatars”.
This, he notes, is while the Crimean authorities are continuing to support “at the highest level” the so-called ‘self-defence’ paramilitary units deployed since Russia occupied the Crimea in late February 2014.
These paramilitary thugs were almost certainly responsible for the abduction, torture and murder of 39-year-old Reshat Ametov in March. His abduction from outside the government building in Simferopol where he was holding a solitary protest against Russia’s invasion, was recorded on video. There is no evidence that the authorities are even trying to find his murderers. They are also failing to take any measures to find three pro-Ukrainian civic activists - Timur Shaimardanov; Seiran Zinedinov and Leonid Korzh who disappeared within a week of each other in May.
Among the other problems that Lavrov claimed to have not heard of are the armed searches of Crimean Tatar homes, mosques, and religious schools, over the last weeks as well, of course, as the eviction of the Mejlis from its headquarters in Simferopol and the planned eviction of the Bakhchysarai Mejlis.
Lavrov was presumably hoping that his audience were not aware of the mounting offensive against the Crimean Tatars in their homeland. Russia certainly pulled all levers in their attempts to prevent the Crimean Tatars even being represented at the UN Conference on Indigenous Peoples last week. It was doubtless galling to Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin that the two Crimean Tatar leaders - Mustafa Dzhemiliev and Refat Chubarov - whom Russia has banned from their homeland were able to publicly speak of the mounting offensive being waged against Crimean Tatars.
This may be the reason for the new attack against Mustafa Dzhemiliev via his son Khaiser. The latter has been moved from a detention centre in the Crimea to Russia’s Krasnodar region. This is in flagrant breach of a directive from the European Court of Human Rights which on July 10 applied Rule 39 ordering that Khaiser be released from custody. Instead, the young man has been taken into Russia, with neither his family nor lawyers able to see him.
In August Mustafa Dzhemiliev recounted how he had been approached by Putin’s people who proposed a meeting which, they hinted, could determine whether or not Khaiser Dzhemiliev was released from custody. His suspicions that his son was being used as a hostage are only confirmed by this latest move.
In Sary-Su a large number of Crimean Tatars gathered on Sunday at the home of one of the abducted young men, and are planning to come on Monday. Abdureshit Dzhepparov says that the authorities have overstepped all limits when they force people to the floor in their own homes, and turn up at their schools and mosques. He stressed that Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed Crimean prime minister should explain the authorities’ actions in relation to the Crimean Tatars.
Russia and its occupation regime in the Crimea are demonstrating terrifying contempt for rule of law, including the instructions from the European Court of Human Rights which are binding on Russia.
It is difficult not to suspect that this latest abduction is aimed at instilling an atmosphere of terror and forcing the Crimean Tatars to leave their homeland. Lack of adequate response from the international community will only compound what Refat Chubarov calls “a state of terror and fear”. An unfolding tragedy for the Crimean Tatar people and a frightening moral defeat before the rule of the fist.
http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1411937159
I thought that he's a special kind of traitor/provocateur and his mission includes anything to make the regular supporter of Kiev to appear an idiot. But it seems that I was wrong and the most of them are idiots really.
Oh, Pagan. So how much do you get paid per post anyway?
That's kind of what I was starting to think based on the articles he chooses to refer to, they are all cherry picked from well known anti-Russian sources. How about some balance? There are no shortage of Crimeans on the Internet if you look around too.
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