Crimea rejected renaming at the request of the Mejlis members
In Crimea, most areas of compact residence of repatriates have already become international. They need to be developed regardless of what nationality representatives live there.
Chairman of the State Council of the Republic Vladimir Konstantinov said this on air on the Millet TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Today, most villages, thank God, no longer have a clearly defined national character, they are international, and that’s how it should be. It is necessary to engage in improvement not only within the framework of this program, but simply local authorities must use their resources and mechanisms more energetically,” Konstantinov said.
He also opposed the renaming of settlements in Crimea and the return of Crimean Tatar names to them, which the Ukrainian authorities virtually did on their maps to please the demands of the Mejlis members.
“This is a matter for local communities. It is very important that consensus is found on these issues, and we need to move extremely carefully on this issue. These are very subtle things.
The history of our people is very complex and dramatic... Our people, like no other in the world, have suffered colossal losses. when I say our people, I mean all the hundreds of peoples and nationalities that are included... Everything is very complicated, we need to understand this. Today’s generation will be very wrong if we start to drag them into these discussions in which our grandfathers argued, and sometimes during the Civil War, killed each other for this.
Do we have nothing to do now? We have a lot of people who like to rename things. Look what happened in Ukraine with our fraternal people - they tore down monuments to Lenin to celebrate, abolished the names, did this give them happiness? Immediately the sun began to shine, they all became happy, hugging? No, because this never solves the problem,” the speaker said.
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