Andrei Babitsky called on the Russian authorities to “cut off the oxygen” “Radio Liberty”
Well-known journalist Andrei Babitsky, now living in Donetsk, called on the Russian authorities to “cut off the oxygen” to the US-funded Radio Liberty, where he himself worked, but was fired after reporting on war crimes by the Ukrainian army in Donbass.
The reason for such a statement by Babitsky was a Radio Liberty video recorded for the Day of the Crimean Tatar Flag.
The video featured both members of the Majlis banned in the Russian Federation and Ukrainian nationalists reading the poem “When We Return.”
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“The point is not even the insignificance of the author’s poetic talent and the quality of the rhyme - this can easily be forgiven in today’s Ukraine. The meaning of the message: we, the autochthonous Crimean Tatars, will return and remind the Russians that they are strangers on our land. And then they will have to cry.
Some unthinkable shit is going on at this radio station. It seems to me that it’s time to cut off the oxygen to the Russian bureau, not just the Crimean one.
Half of the readers are Slavs. They probably interpret the meaning of the barely rhymed x*** more broadly, ignoring the narrowly nationalistic Tatar context: they say, we, the Ukrainians, will return with the Tatars and together with them we will show the Russians who is boss here. Yeah of course.
In any interpretation, the general pathos of the homemade product: Russians! Get out of Crimea! Well, maybe not only Russians, but everyone who voted for Crimea, Russia,” states Babitsky in his blog.
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