Crimean news 81.
(Mass Media review for 23-28 October 2000).
Articles
are abridged.
Against the
visit of NATO ships.
Every third
able-bodied resident of Simferopol is unemployed.
World's
culture is the world of culture.
Alim* brigand
and some other films.
Politics.
French
transport-assisting vessel "Bugenville" will visit Sevastopol port on
a business aim in accordance with the plan of military collaboration of two
ministries of defense - Ukrainian and French.
In the course
of the visit French seamen headed by the vessel commander will visit the
Ukrainian Military Navy Force Administration. They will visit the commanding
vessel of Ukrainian Military Navy Force, and get acquainted with memorials of
Sevastopol City. The visit plan foresees a sport meeting of French seamen with
their Ukrainian colleagues.
Interfax-Ukraine,
"Krymskiye Izvestiya" ("The Crimean news"), #196(2200), 24
October 2000, p.2.
Against the
visit of NATO ships.
Sevastopol
residents and non-governmental organizations have been actively opposing the visit
of NATO ships to Sevastopol port lately.
City Council*
has responded public calls and considered the issue of NATO ships' visits to
Sevastopol port which have become rather frequent lately. It was emphasized
that as this military-political organization was moving to East, to the Russian
borders, such visits to the port where the Black Sea Fleet of RF* was located,
caused worries and concerns of thousands of Sevastopol residents, who thought
that it was their duty to do anything necessary for preserving and
strengthening friendly relationships of Ukraine and Russia.
The City
Council told it was not satisfied with these facts that have become frequent
lately. They have decided to address to the ministries of defense and foreign
affairs of Ukraine asking to give a reasonable explaining on this matter.
Grigoriy Staroverov,
"Krymskaya Pravda" ("The Crimean Truth"), #194(22607), 24
October 2000, p.1.
Our information: *City and Village Councils
are the local organs of the executive power.
**RF stands for the Russian
Federation.
The chairman of
the Ministry of Council, Sergey Kunitsyn has confirmed the information that the
president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma will visit Crimean peninsula in the
beginning of November. L.Kuchma is expected to hold a sitting with the
President's Council of the Crimean Tatar people. He might hold a meeting
devoted to the socio-economic problems of Crimea as well.
"Krymskaya gazeta"
("The Crimean newspaper"), #194 (22607), 25 October 2000, p.1.
On October
15, the
chairman of Mejlis, M.Dzhemilev took part in the conference of Bakhchisaray
regional Mejlis. They considered the issues of providing land plots to the
Crimean Tatars living in the district, issue of establishing a Crimean Tatar
Council at the district state administration. The conference participants
reelected Ilmi Umerov to the post of the chairman of regional mejlis for an
additional term.
On October
19, the Draft
of Law of Ukraine "About the status of the Crimean Tatar people" was
considered at the sitting of the Committee for human rights, national
minorities and interethnic relations of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine*. The law
draft was confirmed and recommended for consideration at the plenary sitting of
the parliament by the majority of the Committee, which includes the Chairman of
Mejlis Mustafa Dzhemilev and his first deputy Refat Chubarov.
On the same
day, they held an informational briefing-presentation of the Program for
development and integration in Crimea for 2001-2004. The briefing, chaired by
the representative of the UN Program for development in Ukraine Douglas
Gardener, was devoted to consideration of the results of implementation of the
previous UN program for Crimean Tatars and other deportees' integration. They
also considered the submitted project for coming four years. M.Dzhemilev,
R.Chubarov and others have introduced several remarks on how the previous
projects had been implemented. In particular, they paid a special attention to
the fact that the program, first of all, had to be agreed upon with the
representatives of the people for which the program was aimed at. They also
said they were sorry that a considerable part of donor facilities had been
wasted on conducting meaningless "workshops" with the participating
of incompetent people who were eager to preserve inequity of the Crimean Tatar
people. They are also sorry that authorities have built one more Russian school
but not a national Crimean Tatar one. They have also reached an agreement that
all the corrections Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people had introduced into the
program would be taken into consideration.
On October
20, they held
a meeting of delegates group of Crimea and Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with the
minister of finance of Ukraine I.Mityukov. The meeting was devoted to
discussion of the draft budget of Ukraine for 2001. The chairman of Mejlis,
M.Dzhemilev took part in the meeting as well. He held a separate meeting with
I.Mityukov, where M.Dzhemilev drew minister's attention the fact that if the
Crimean parliament did not introduce any changes into the Crimean budget then
it would probably exclude assignations aimed at the solution of deportee's
problems from the budget of Crimea. On this ground, M.Dzhemilev proposed
I.Mityukov to foresee assignations equaling not less than 65 million grivnas*
for housing of Crimean Tatars and other deportees in the state project.
On October
21, they held
a sitting of Mejlis presidium devoted to the issues of coming-up Kurultay 3,
land problems and the situation connected with Bakhchisaray court's decision on
the case of Aksakals brought against a Mejlis member, Ilmi
Umerov.***
On October
23, a meeting
of Mejlis chairman, Mustafa Dzhemilev, his deputy R.Ablayev, chairman of the
revision commission of Kurultay A.Mustafayev with the chairman of Bakhchisaray
district state administration, V.Tsyganskiy, his deputies I.Umrov and R.Chigoz
was held in Bakhchisaray. They considered the issue of allotting land plots to
the Crimean Tatars.
Crimean Tatar people's Mejlis
press-service,.
Our information: *Verkhovnaya Rada is the
parliament of Ukraine.
**Ukrainian grivna stands
against US dollar at the following rate: 1 USD=5,4 grivnas.
***See "Crimean news
46" on this issue.
Social
sphere.
Every third
able-bodied resident of Simferopol is unemployed.
Every third
able-bodied resident of Simferopol is deprived of opportunity to get a
guaranteed income.
Doctors,
teachers, servicemen and workers of plants make up the majority of the
unemployed in Simferopol.
Among
Simferopol residents left without employment we can observe the following
rates: 61% - are men, 31 - are women, 47% of them are middle-aged, the youth
makes up 40% and people older than 50 make up 13%.
40% of
Simferopol's unemployed residents have university degrees and the rest has got
special technical education.
Interfax-Ukraine,
"Krymskiye izvestiya" ("The Crimean news"), #199 (2203), 27
October 2000, p.5.
Culture,
history.
A "Polish
Moslems" exhibition was opened in Yevpatoriya library of Krupskaya. It is
dedicated to the Crimean Tatars who have been living in the neighboring country
for 600 years.
The photo-documentary
exhibition was prepared by the Polish Institute of Culture, which works in
Kyiv. It has already been held in Kyiv and Simferopol before. People show their
interest in Yevpatoriya as well.
According to
the photos, Polish Moslems, as the Crimean Tatars are called in Poland, have
preserved their originality, culture and language. And yet, the Crimean Tatars
play a very appreciable role in the Polish society. They serve in army,
occupying high commander posts, they are deputies the Seym and organs of
local authorities.
After being
demonstrated in Yevpatoriya, the exhibition will move to Stariy Krym, later to
Tashkent, Alma-Aty and other Asian cities.
Valentin Kostrov,
"Krymskaya Gazeta" ("The Crimean newspaper"), #196(116052),
24 October 2000, p.4.
They celebrated
the 80th anniversary of Amet-khan Sultan, outstanding son of the
Crimean Tatar people, two-times hero of the Soviet Union, prominent
pilot-tester.
He was a
pilot-fighter during the Great Patriotic War. He made 603 war flights and
conducted 150 sky fights.
He tested 100
planes. And perished when testing a new aviation invention.
On October 19,
the Great Patriotic War veterans and students of the Crimean State
Industry-Pedagogical Institute had lain flowers at the memorial desk of
Amet-khan Sultan, which is situated on Amet-khan Sultan Square in Simferopol.
Later, they held a memory program, dedicated to this great man. And on October
25 the solemn measures were held in Alupka, hero's motherland.
"Avdet" ("The
Returning"), #19 (253), 26 October 2000, p.1-2.
World's
culture is the world of culture.
This is how
they called the exhibition of the Crimean painters, devoted to the 55th
anniversary of UN and International year of world's culture.
The exhibition,
opened on October 24, includes more than 50 paintings of 26 masters of painting
and applied art - Crimean residents.
The UN Program
for development and integration of Crimea, Crimean Consultative council
organized this exhibition.
Masters of
painting were granted certificates proving that they are the members of
"World's culture is the world of culture" exhibition. Classical music
concert added happy mood to the participants.
Valentina Selivanova, "Krymskaya
gazeta" ("The Crimean newspaper"), #199 (16055), 27 October 2000, p.1.
Alim* brigand
and some other films.
There is an old
film on in the capital's cinema equipped with "Dolby Stereo" system.
Films about Alim brigand, created by our cinematographers in 1914 and 1926 were
shown during one the evening.
The show
initiator, Ismail Khatipov has already introduced these masterpieces to the
Crimean viewers.
- I think that our main task
is to do everything in order to make peoples closer but not separate them -
said Ismail Khatipov.
Alexey Vasilyev,
"Krymskoye Vremya" ("The Crimean time"), #199 (1066),, 26
October 2000, p.7.
Our information: *Alim is the Crimean Tatar
folklore hero.
The third stage
of expedition, organized by the Republic Crimean Tatar museum of arts under the
invitation of the Crimean Tatar Diaspora in Romania "Democratic unity of
the Romania's Crimean Tatars" has extended collaboration on the problems
of regenerating the national culture.
Regenerating of
the national culture and discussions with its best members is the goal, which
determined the idea and aim of the expedition.
In the course
of work they collected museum exhibits that included old household goods,
Crimean Tatars' clothes they wore in the beginning of the century. Two wedding
dresses are the most valuable among them. They also managed to find some
national singers having a very interesting folklore song repertoire.
Together with
collecting of musical material they got acquainted with singing and dancing
collectives of the Crimean Tatar Diaspora.
Sadiha Ziyadinova,
"Krymskiye izvestiya" ("The Crimean news"0, #198 (2202), 26
October 2000, p.7.