The Western press lies about the state of affairs in Crimea while ultra-Islamist organizations operate on the peninsula. Belgian political scientist Chris Roman said this in Moscow at a meeting of the discussion club “March 18,” the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to him, ordinary Crimean Tatars are happy with life on the Russian peninsula.
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“I was in Crimea two months ago. Before this, I heard in the West that Russian ultranationalists were killing Tatars in the streets and that Russian tanks were also driving through the streets. I didn’t see tanks anywhere except in museums.
I did several interviews with Tatars, and they said that Amnesty International was talking nonsense. There are, of course, two Tatar organizations in Crimea, they are ultra-Islamists, and they are a little like the Tatar ISIS. But normal, ordinary Tatars are for Russia,” said Chris Roman.