Crımean
news 58.
(Mass Medıa survey for
15-20 May 2000).
(All the material is given in an abridged form).
Powers are
getting ready for The day of deportation.
Demonstration,
meeting, tents…
Powers condole
with the deported.
Crimean dwellers
paid respect to the victims of mass deportation yesterday.
Monument to the
victims of deportation.
On the results
of the Crimean Tatar nation's representatives council sitting.
Anatoliy Rakhanskiy: PAEC Resolution on the Crimean Tatars
was formed in Ismail-bey*.
18 May
- The Day of Deportation.
Powers are getting ready
for The day of deportation.
On the threshold of May 18 - The Day of deportation -
powers remember the Crimean Tatars more and more often. On May 11 the President
of Ukraine held a sitting of the Crimean tatar nation's representatives council
with participating of Crimean leaders. And on May 12 they held a meeting of
organizational committee for carrying out mourning measures in the Ministry
Council.
The members of organizational committee assured the
chairman that the powers were basically ready for May 18. The plan of intended
measures includes the meeting of Ministry Council leadership with specialists-managers
from the Crimean Tatars, mourning sitting in the Ukrainian theatre devoted to
the annivarsary government leadership's participating in the meeting on May 18.
City and district leaders were recommended to hold
regional mourning meetings simultaneously with the one in Simferopol. This was
done in order not to overcrowd Simferopol with the meeting participants.
A.Nejivoy "Krimskoye Vremya", #86 (935), 16 May 2000,p.3.
Demonstration, meeting,
tents…
They considered the results of the first sitting of the
Crimean Tatar nation's representatives council with the Presidentof Ukraine at
the widened sitting of Mejilis on May 14. Additionally, they
considered the measures, devoted to the mourning day on May 18. The previous
day, chairman of regional mejilises were recommended to hold some actions in
district centers and initiate "tent towns".
S.Abdurahmanov,
"Kirim", #22 (571), 20 May 2000, p.4.
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Some 300 Crimean Tatars walked in colons at the meeting in Nijnegorskiy
district on May 14. Their main demand was the solution of the land problem.
They initiated a "tent town" in front of the district state
administration after the meeting.
Crimean Tatars' picket began in front of Simferopol district state
administration building on May 15. The meeting participants decided to initiate
a "tent town" and keep it until their demands have been satisfied.
According to the words of the Simferopol regional mejilis, the most
important problem is the problem of getting land. The meeting participants
demand that the Crimean Tatars should be presented in all power structures, the
toponomics should be restored, national education should be developed and also
the head of Simferopol district state administration should be dismissed.
Protest actions began in Djankoy, district center Pervomayskoye and
village Bogdanovka of Simferopol district. The picket participants in
Pervomayskoye decided to march to Simferopol showing their protest.
"Avdet"
("Returning"), #9 (243), 17 May 2000, p.1.
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The Crimean Tatars' action of protest was held in Simferopol on May 16.
Some 50 persons walked along the central streets of the city to the building of
local district state administration under usual slogans. Militia blocked
traffic on their way. And a "tent town" of their compatriots was
expecting the action participants at the final point. "Adalet" party
organized a meeting there. Their demands are as follows: "Re-division of
land" "Dismiss the chairman of Simferopol state administration"…
Andrey
Konovalov, "Komsomolskaya Pravda v Ukraine", #87 (902/22312), 17 May
2000, p.4.
Powers condole with the
deported.
Ministry Council, Presidium of Supreme Court and President's
representative in the Crimea promulgated an address to the autonomy dwellers in
the connection with the deportation anniversary. All the documents included
condolence to the deported and they emphasized state's striving for solving the
problems of repatriates despite difficult economic condition.
Dmitriy Bushev,
"Krimskoye vremya", #88 (955), 18 may 2000, p.3.
Crimean dwellers paid
respect to the victims of mass deportation yesterday.
According to the evaluation of Crimean mourning meeting organizers, some
20 thousand people took part in the meeting, which was held in Simferopol
Central Square on May 18. Representatives of all Crimean districts and places
of compact dwelling of repatriates, took part in the meeting. The national
deputy of Ukraine Refat Chubarov, the chairman of Ministry Council Sergey
Kunitsin, President's regular representative in the Crimea Anatoliy Korneychuk,
national deputy of Ukraine Alexander Emets, representatives of the Crimean
Tatars' organizations and other national communities of the Crimea came out at
the meeting. Mejilis Chairman, Mustafa Djemilev didn't take part in the meeting
this year, because he is now on business trip in the USA, where he's discussing
the problem of international help to the Crimean repatriates.
The idea of meeting participants' demands, mentioned in the resolution
is to restore Crimean Tatars' political rights, developing mechanisms, which
would provide their representing in power structures, giving the Crimean Tatar
language the status of a state language, giving land to the repatriates on the
equal terms with other Crimean dwellers, living in the rural zone and more
rapid consideration of social accommodation and cultural development. Many
respondents emphasized that there had been established a constructive dialogue
of the Crimean Tatars with the Ukrainian leadership, the President. They would
like to establish the same dialogue with the Supreme Court of the Crimea.
After the meeting the colon of districts representatives went to the
building of Verkhovna Rada (VR) of the Crimea in order to initiate a "tent
town" there, inviting to the dialogue and cooperation on norm-and-lawful
acts, which assure the political status of the Crimean Tatars. The "tent
town" will remain in front of Verkhovna Rada of the Crimea until May 24,
the day of next in turn plenary sitting of VR session.
Yelena
Gornaya, "Krimskaya Gazeta", #89 (15945), 19 May 2000, p.1.
Monument to the victims of
deportation.
The chairman of Ministry Council of the Crimea, Sergey Kunitsin came out
proposing to build a memorial, devoted to the victims of deportation and Stalin
Regime in the Crimea.
Formerly, It was an idea to create a memorial in Simferopol, which would
symbolize friendship of nations, living on the peninsula and would erase all
the stereotypes of the past, which divide people today. It was later understood
that the monument could be a memorial
to the victims of deportation.
"Krimskaya
Gazeta", #90 (15946), 20 May 2000, p.1.
The representatives of official powers of Tashkent came out
categorically against conducting civil funeral devoted to the victims of
deportation at the city cemetery "Dombrabad". Noting
"Uzbekistan's preference to the principals of democracy and civil
values", it was declared that the Crimean Tatars were allowed to visit the
graves of their relatives and say a prayer but it didn't have to be a general
prayer as it is usually done by the Crimean Tatars.
Mejilis representative in the Middle Asia noted that no matter what the
position of powers was the Crimean Tatars would visit cemeteries in the
republic, where the victims of deportation rest.
"Dombrabad" cemetery was blocked by militia from 7 a.m. There
were two buses with militioneers at gates. There were also many militioneers
along the foot walks in the cemetery. There were totally about 300 of them.
When Mejilis representative and officials of the Ukrainian embassy came
to the cemetery wishing to take pert in the mourning action, the leader of
Uzbek security organs demanded that the Crimean Tatars should leave the
cemetery in 10 minutes stating that "otherwise he would give an order to
clean the area".
Press-service
of Mejilis representatives in the Middle Asia.
Politics.
On the results of the
Crimean Tatar nation's representatives council sitting.
The President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma gave several orders to the
Cabinet of Ministers on the results of the Crimean Tatar nation's
representatives' council.
The President has obliged the government to finish the developing of the
Concept of State ethno-national policy of Ukraine.
They studied and developed specific measures for providing the deported
with land, who live in the rural zone of the Crimea.
Corresponding government departments were given orders to finance
programs and measures related to returning and accommodation of the deported
Crimean Tatars and people of other nationalities in quantities, foreseen by the
Law of state budget for the current year.
The project of Law about the State
budget for the coming year should include expenses for capital
investments in construction of dwelling for the deported in the Crimea and also
giving credits for individual construction.
They will take measures for creating favorable conditions for a
specialized banking service of financial-and-economic activity of
entrepreneurs, based by the Crimean Tatars' representatives.
The Ministry of Education was given an order to provide an annual
accepting deported nations' youth in state educational establishments.
Interfax-Ukraine,
"Krimskiye Izvestiya", #89 (2093), 18 May 2000, p.1.
Anatoliy
Rakhanskiy: PAEC Resolution on the Crimean Tatars was formed in Ismail-bey*.
The deputy of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Yevpatiriya district,
chairman of Committee of Parliament Assembly of European Council (PAEC) on
science and technologies Anatoliy Rakhanskiy considers the resolution on the
Crimean Tatars as a very important decision of socio-economic problems of the
deported nation's integration:
- It's
an extremely important document for attracting West to the fate of the deported
nation… I could invite the PAEC Committee to the away seminar on the nature
protection and problems of self-authorities to Yevpatoriya three years ago. It
was then that the European deputies, having been to Ismail-bey, learnt about
the deported nation in the first time. So, this PAEC resolution was indirectly
developed already in Ismail-bey…Now, in the connection with adopting the
resolution there is a real possibility to influence on the Ukrainian state
structures, Cabinet of Ministers, ministries and different departments… Apart
from that, we have a legal right to address to Russia and other CIS countries
asking to solve our problem. But the main task is that Ukraine has to enter the
Fund of social development of the European Council. It gives long-term credits
for solving social problems on very favorable terms. Ukraine could take such a
credit for accommodation of the deported nations and for solution of some other
social problems.
Valentin
Scherbini, "Krimskaya Gazeta", #88 (15944), 18 May 2000, p.2.
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Our information:
*Ismail-bey - the village where the Crimean Tatars live in compact. It is
situated at the suburb of Yevpatoriya.
Culture.
The 7th annual conference "Libraries and associations in
the changing world: new technologies and new forms of cooperation" will be
held in Sudak from June 3 till June 11.
The number of conference participants increases year by year; the number
of reports also increases, the range of topics, considered by specialists from
30 countries also widens.
The conference participants will be working in 10 sections, seminars,
"workshops" this summer. They have foreseen some away sittings in
Simferopol, Koktebel and Alushta.
M.Kucheruk, "Krimskiye
Izvestiya", #87 (2091), 16 May 2000, p.5.