The SBU said about the restoration of the investigations into the deportation of Crimean Tatars

The security service of Ukraine resumed its work of the investigation team that will conduct the proceedings for the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, said the head of the SBU Valentyn Nalyvaychenko.
"began again the work of the special investigation team in the investigation of the facts of the deportation of Crimean Tatars ", - quotes Nalyvaychenko news Agency.
According to the head of the SBU, before the case was closed, and the documents are hidden. In 2009, the head of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko ordered the SBU to prosecute under the criminal code on the illegal eviction of the Crimean Tatar people from Crimea in 1944. Crimean Tatars were deported in 1944 After the liberation of the Crimea in the process of the great Patriotic war. In 1987, the decision of the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev Crimean Tatars were allowed to return to Crimea. April 21, 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on rehabilitation of Crimean Tatars and other peoples who have been the target of Stalin's deportations at the end of the Second world war. In Crimea on March 16 of last year held a referendum on the status of autonomy, more than 96% of participants who were in favor of joining region in Russia. March 21, 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law on ratification of the agreement on joining of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia and signed the decree about formation of the Crimean Federal district. Currently in Crimea there are about 260 thousand Crimean Tatars. After joining the Crimea to Russia in practice 100% of Crimean Tatars received passports of citizens of the Russian Federation, they are also widely represented in government. According to the Constitution of Crimea, the status of state languages assigned to Russian, Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian languages. In April of heads the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. V. Lavrov had previously reported that the problems of the Crimean Tatar people in Crimea solved. In addition, at the end of April, the Chapter visited the Crimea Turkish delegation Mehmet Uskul said that was glad the situation of the Crimean Tatars on the Peninsula.


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