A Kiev journalist saw firsthand that there is no repression or oppression of Tatars in Crimea
Ukrainian journalist Olesya Medvedeva from the Kyiv online newspaper “Strana” arranged a tour to Crimea, where in several episodes she describes what she saw on the peninsula and shares her impressions.
In the first episode, she talks about crossing the border through the Kalanchak checkpoint.
She traveled to the peninsula from Kyiv by minibus; crossing the border took her 40 minutes, and the checkpoint infrastructure left her with a lot of impressions.
“The Russians, of course, have dug in completely. For us, these are some kind of frail yellow-blue trailers, but for them it’s like it’s supposed to be at a checkpoint,” the journalist describes.
She also traveled through densely populated areas of Crimean Tatars and debunked the myth of Kyiv propaganda about “oppression” and “repression” based on nationality.
“The Ukrainian authorities often say that Crimean Tatars are now being very oppressed in Crimea. Here we are passing by a village of Crimean Tatars... Two floors, three, four. They say that over the past five years, five mosques have been built. Maybe even more,” notes a guest from Kyiv.
During the first day, Medvedeva visited Feodosia, Simferopol and Sevastopol. In the hero city, she demonstratively sang “Chervona Ruta” and became convinced that the FSB does not conduct interrogations for Ukrainian songs.
Medvedev briefly summed up her impression of her first day in Crimea in one sentence: “I can say that in five years the cities have been quite strongly integrated into Russia.”
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