The Mejlis' idea-fix threatens to destabilize Ukraine
The experience of extremist Mejlis members can be used by national minorities in other regions of Ukraine.
Valery Kravchenko, a senior researcher at the Institute for Strategic Studies, which is subordinate to the President of Ukraine, writes about this in the Kiev online weekly “Zerkalo Nedeli”.
He calls “ambiguous” the desire of the group “Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people”, banned in the Russian Federation, to enshrine the status of national autonomy of the Crimean Tatars in the Constitution of Ukraine.
The author notes that supporters of this initiative claim that “such a decision will help in the fight for Ukrainian Crimea.”
“But along with the arguments “for,” we should always name the arguments “against.” Thus, by creating formal autonomy without actual control over the territory, we not only plunge the Constitution into a parallel reality (nominal provisions devalue the Basic Law of the state, especially those introduced after the fact after Russian aggression), but also create a dangerous precedent that will certainly be used by the Hungarians in Transcarpathia or the Bulgarians in Odessa region,” the author believes.
“It doesn’t matter that we are talking about the indigenous people: any compromise and concessions by one against the backdrop of an educational and linguistic offensive (as some interpret it) against others will cause a crisis and create conditions for destabilization and manifestations of local separatism. Whether Kyiv needs these risks is a rhetorical question,” Kravchenko sums up.
As PolitNavigator reported, members of the Mejlis announced the imminent transformation of Crimea into national autonomy.
Also the head of the Majlis promised that soon The Ukrainian Constitution will be rewritten for the Crimean Tatars.
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