Russia benefits from the extradition of Majlis extremists Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz from Crimea, since now with their help it will not be possible to destabilize the situation on the peninsula.
Aleksey Garan, a political scientist and Maidan activist, stated this on TV channel 112, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“On the one hand, this is our victory, and, on the other, Putin made sure that Chiygoz and Umerov were not in Crimea. He could not transfer them to Ukraine, he could not release them. That’s why he did this and did it with the help of Turkey. This reminds me of how Lenin expelled Russian intellectuals by the thousands from Russia, and then how the Soviet government expelled dissidents from the Soviet Union. These are iconic figures,” Garan said.