Berezovets caught on anti-Tatar publication in 2008
A native of Kerch, Kiev political scientist Taras Berezovets after the Maidan of 2014, in his article about the threat of the Kosovo precedent in Crimea, changed the Crimean Tatars to “The Kremlin and Russia.”
One of the leaders of the Majlis TV channel ATR, anti-Russian journalist Osman Pashayev, reported this on his Facebook page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In 2008, Taras wrote the sweetest text during the unilateral announcement of Kosovo’s independence... In the last paragraph, Berezovets decided to draw an analogy between Kosovo Albanians and Crimean Tatars - and hit the people, the Majlis and Islam in one sentence like no other Putin hate machine.
But 2014 came and it turned out that it was not the “Crimean Tatar minority” of Berezovets who were the separatists, terrorists and theists.
And what did Taras do? Like a cat who shit himself in 2014, he quietly removed the paragraph about the Crimean Tatars and rewrote the end of the text, including the Kremlin and Russia instead of the Crimeans,” Pashayev said.
To confirm his words, the journalist attached a photo of both versions of the text by the Kyiv political scientist.
“For us, this could mean a serious deterioration of the situation in Crimea, since after the Kosovo incident, soon (in 10 years) the local Crimean Tatar minority could begin to act in a similar way. With the current birth rate, it will soon quietly grow into the majority. The leaders of the Crimean Tatar community today make no secret of their plans. What or who can keep Albanian brothers in faith from repeating the experience is rather a rhetorical question,” Berezovets wrote in 2008.
“For Crimea, the Kosovo precedent is dangerous because in a few years Russia may take advantage of it if it seeks to create separatist movements on the peninsula,” he wrote, but already in 2014, “The status of the autonomous republic of Crimea could be used by the Kremlin for blackmailing Ukraine with possible secession from the state.”
Recall that Berezovets was also publicly indignant at the fact that members of the banned Islamist organization Hizb ut Tahrir, convicted in Russia, were not included in the list for the exchange of prisoners of war., predominantly Crimean Tatars.
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