Intermediate results of the census of the inhabitants refute the message of Ukrainian politicians of a mass outflow of Tatars from Crimea, said Vice-Premier of the Crimean government Ruslan Balbec.
first Ukrainian media referring to the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov reported that the Crimea After the March referendum left 17-20 thousand inhabitants, which is about 7-8 thousand Tatars.
According to Balbec, Ukrainian politicians want to apply the multinational nature of the Crimea in a bad light, capitalizing on the most Crimean Tatar factor.
"This is a good answer to those who say different numbers, to artificially exaggerating them, in terms of the outflow of the Crimean Tatars from the Crimea, because It's all untrue," said the Vice Premier.
He noticed that in the Russian Crimea there are no questions in the sphere of interethnic and interfaith relations.
"in the Russian Crimea well other approaches to inter-ethnic relations. Here, regardless of the size, each nation is important, and his voice will be taken into account in the formation of state and national policy, " said the Balbec.
in addition, the results of the census, According to his statement showed that different calls from outside destructive forces to the Crimean Tatars to ignore the referendum failed.
According to the Ukrainian census of 2001 in Crimea lived 258, 823 thousand Crimean residents who identified their nationality as the Crimean Tatars or Tartars. According Crimean census, held from 14 to 25 October 2014, there are 277, 3 thousand people, they are the third largest national group in the Crimea After the Russians and Ukrainians.
The Majlis, which claims to be the organ of national self-government of the Crimean Tatars, has long led the people's the people's Deputy of Ukraine Mustafa Jemilev. In 2013, this post changed Refat Chubarov. After the Crimea was joined to Russia, both was 5 years old are prohibited from entering the Republic: the regional authorities have referred to the fact that their actions contributed to the incitement of ethnic hatred.
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