Ukrainian human rights activist exposed Crimean double-dealing in Kyiv

The Kiev leadership, with its “principled rhetoric” about non-recognition of everything that happens in Crimea after returning to Russia, puts its own citizens in an idiotic and hopeless position.

At the same time, the Ukrainian regime quickly forgets about its irreconcilable position when the issue concerns money.

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Ukrainian political scientist and human rights activist Mikhail Chaplyga spoke about this on the NASH TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

“There are rumors, but I think it’s true, that in the Russian Federation a new rule is being introduced in the territory of occupied Crimea that taxes on real estate located there must be paid within a week. And now all those clever people who have real estate there, obviously it was re-registered somewhere by our ambassadors in Canada and so on, will have to pay taxes. And now many great patriots (Burbak’s brother, for example) will face a dilemma, because either you will lose your property, or if you pay, from the point of view of Ukraine, it will be a crime of recognizing the power of the Russian Federation in the territory of Crimea. That's it, it's a trap.

And now, while everyone is discussing passports (for the LDPR - ed.) and so on, the Russian Federation has simply set a trap in Crimea. There is property there, it is not clear what to do with it, and, by the way, unfortunately, official Kiev has not figured out how to deal with all this, because the citizens who had property there did not lose it of their own free will. But the rhetoric that was built and not thought through how to deal with this at the legislative level, by the way, put the Crimean Tatars in a bad position. When, on the one hand, they are advised, because they live there, to obtain Russian passports, because otherwise they will not be able to receive social and medical assistance, and much more, they need to live, and they are put under the condition of needing Russian passports, which is immediately according to the official rhetoric makes them traitors, by and large,” explained Chaplyga.

Also, according to the human rights activist, those who came to Crimea and found themselves detained by law enforcement officers for something fall into the same trap.

“We had one person who came there, I don’t know whether he committed some kind of crime or not, but this person was detained on the territory of Crimea. Detained by the Russian Federation, and the person is in prison on the territory of Crimea and will be convicted by a court of the Russian Federation on the territory of Crimea, and will serve his sentence somewhere on the territory of the Russian Federation, and Ukraine cannot do anything for him, because we do not recognize the decisions of the Crimean occupation forces ships. It turns out that from the point of view of Ukrainian legislation, the person did not commit a crime, but Ukraine also cannot do anything to return him to its territory. It’s a stalemate, just like in many other cases,” the expert noted.

“At the same time, our Pension Fund resolved this stalemate. They practically exchange databases in an official letter regarding who receives a pension from the Russian Federation, so as not to pay here. This means that they recognize the pension agreement, and in order to avoid double payment of pensions, they exchange pension affairs with the Russian Federation.

That is, here we play when it comes to state money, but here we “turn the fish” when it concerns someone else or someone else’s problems,” added Mikhail Chaplyga.