Integration and development of the Crimean Tatar people for years to artificially retarded by the Ukrainian authorities to use them as a counterbalance to the Russian-speaking population, said Minister of culture of Crimea Arina Novoselskaya.

in her expressions, and for many years has paid inadequate attention to proper cultural and spiritual revival and development of the Crimean Tatars, who survived a difficult process returning to their homeland from the places of deportation.

"We have to admit that the normal process of integration of the Crimean Tatars in the Crimean society is artificially hampered by political reasons, by the desire of the previous government to have in the Crimean Tatars opposed the Russian-speaking majority of Crimea," Novoselsky said Thursday at a national conference for regional and municipal authorities ' support to the national cultures as a guarantee of social stability ".

The Minister said that the Russian Crimea has paid Careful attention to the integrated development of culture of different nationalities living on the Peninsula, among them the culture of the Crimean Tatar people. In her vision, the development of national culture, is the key to the region's development and unity of the entire Russian society.

"despite all the negative trends, for nearly a quarter of a century the Crimean community managed to preserve their culture, identity, their languages, ethnic tolerance, sense of spiritual kinship with Russia. We can say that in the spiritual sense, the Crimea has never been out of the orbit of Russian civilization ", - concluded the Minister.

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