Defector Kazarin: “Tatars are separated from Crimea by a hyphen”
Writing the word “Crimean Tatar” with a hyphen was invented under the last General Secretary of the CPSU, Mikhail Gorbachev, to emphasize the foreignness of the Crimean Tatars on the peninsula. The Crimean scientist-defector, rector of the clone of the Taurida National University in Kyiv, Vladimir Kazarin, stated this on the air of the Majlis TV channel “ATR”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “The State Institute of Russian Language named after Pushkin in a letter addressed to the occupation head of Crimea Sergei...