Moscow journalist calls for new sanctions against Russia for closing ATR
Moscow - Kyiv, March 17 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Everything is heading towards the fact that in two weeks the Crimean Tatars will also be deprived of national television broadcasting, the only way in the modern world to preserve culture and language, the journalist writes "Echo of Moscow", Crimean Tatar Aider Muzhdabaev. He shames Russia for this and calls on the West to intervene.
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“For the fourth time, the only Crimean Tatar and best trilingual TV channel in Crimea, ATR, was returned the documents drawn up in accordance with all the requirements of the laws of the Russian Federation for the renewal of the broadcasting license, which expires on April 1,” writes Muzhdabaev.
It will be impossible to evaluate this other than as actions aimed at oppressing people on ethnic grounds. That is, as a crime against humanity.”
According to the journalist, “practically everyone in Russia, including, alas, the intelligentsia, is indifferent to the tragedy of the Crimean Tatars, torn between countries, and in Crimea suffocating from threats and repression from the authorities and special services. In our country we will not hear voices in defense of the ATR television company.”
Therefore, he hopes “only that the issue […] will finally be raised in international organizations - with very specific sanctions attached to it. “Why is Russian state television broadcast freely all over the world, but the Crimean Tatar people do not have the right to watch television in their homeland in their own language? I would really like to ask this question to both Russian and Western governments and parliamentarians,” writes Muzhdabaev.
“And from a purely human point of view I would like to add this. Aren’t you ashamed, my Russia, calling yourself a great country, to mock a small and peaceful people like that? Who do we take our example from, Hitler? Lord, what a shame this is,” the author laments.
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