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A quick note: I’m really excited to have discovered this blog about Crimea and Crimean Tatars: My Simferopol Home Marusia, the blogger, also has a page at MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/tsarinamaria Lots of good stuff. *** The 64th anniversary of the 1944 deportations is on Sunday.
Two posts from my today’s GV reading: – MoldovAnn on Chernobyl aid programs – [...] I do believe aid organizations want to help people have better lives. But when I hear them talking about “we’re going to support this community because it’s not too far from Kyiv and we can easily visit it in a [...]
This may sound like a non sequitur, but I don’t want to postpone saying it: In the upcoming parliamentary election, I’m voting against them all. I wanted to do it in 2004, but Yanukovych was just way too much. I wanted to do it a year and a half ago, but Pora seemed like such [...]
Comments to this Korrespondent.net piece about Crimean Tatars (RUS) really stink. I won’t translate any of it – because I’m sick of the same kind of xenophobic shit that the Russian blogosphere is full of. Turns out Ukraine’s no different in this respect.
This year, I didn’t post anything on the 63rd anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, but here’s a link to J. Otto Pohl’s entry – please read it. Below is an excerpt: On 18 May 1944 the NKVD began the systematic round up of the Crimean Tatars in accordance with GKO order 5859ss. [...]
Also on Nov. 7, I watched a really nice TV show with Mustafa Jemilev, leader of the Crimean Tatars. The timing was perfect – a very graceful fuck-you to the kommunyaki on their favorite day. Jemilev is like a live history book – and he doesn’t seem to need any bullshit political charisma because of [...]
An impromptu Crimean Tatar reading overview… Politics: An interview (RUS) with Refat Chubarov, a Ukrainian PM, first deputy head of the Crimean Tatae Mejlis, conducted by Gulnara Bekirova, a Crimean Tatar historian and author, for a Simferopol newspaper in late August this year (reproduced at kirimtatar.com). Here’s why Chubarov voted for Yanukovich as prime minister [...]
Dimwits at Gazeta.ru quoted what dimwits at ITAR-TASS wrote about Crimean Tatars at 11 am today: About half a thousand people were involved in a mass fight in Bahcesaray today. To prevent bloodshed, a special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Berkut, was summoned, said a Crimean law enforcement official. The fight [...]
Otto Pohl has posted about the deportations of the Crimean Tatars – here. *** Also, an AP piece on today’s commemoration (in the Kyiv Post): 30,000 Crimean Tatars rally in Ukraine marking 62nd anniversary of deportation May 18 2006 (AP) Thousands of Crimean Tatars marched in the capital of Crimea on Thursday to mark the [...]
May 18 marks the 62nd anniversary of the 1944 deportations of the Crimean Tatars. *** I’ve stumbled on Mustafa Jemilev’s bio: the current leader of the Crimean Tatars was born Nov. 13, 1943. My head has quickly translated it into this: he was roughly Marta’s age – around 6 months old – when the deportations [...]
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