Lavrov: the Crimean Tatars - the citizens of Russia

Any plans to be deported Crimean Tatars are not hatched, they are residents of the Russian Federation and subject to treatment As any other citizen of Russia, said on the last working day of the week the Head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov..

" Regarding the situation of the Crimean Tatars, they are citizens of the Russian Federation and subject to treatment As any other citizen of the Russian Federation. I have not heard of any serious problems. No deportations, no plans, and in your head no one, " said the Minister, in answering the relevant question.

The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation focused on the " What, then How in the Crimea was a referendum and the majority of residents through free will Crimeans made the decision, As they have received them, one of the first acts After the reunification of the Crimea with Russia was the establishment of three state languages, and among them the Crimean Tatar ".

" This has never happened, as long as the Crimea was from Ukraine ", - noticed Lavrov.

Crimea became a Russian region After the March referendum, in which a Large number of people do not recognize the legitimacy of the February coup d'etat in Ukraine, voted for the accession of the Russian Federation.

After the reunification with Russia, the Crimean authorities have pledged before the end of the current year, 240 million (approximately $ 22 million) to help the Crimean Tatar people, representatives of the Tatar people was also offered a number of senior official posts in the government of the Republic. Recently, the acting head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov said That the Crimean authorities began systematic socio-economic issues associated with resettlement of the Crimean Tatar people.

however, the Russian President centuries Putin, speaking In the leadership of the Russian Federation in connection with the appeal of the Republic of the Crimea and city of Sevastopol for admission into the Russian Federation, said the need to take all necessary political and legislative decisions that will complete the process of rehabilitation of the Crimean Tatar people.

As Putin said, now 2, 2 million of the population of Crimea 1, 5 million Russians, 350 thousand Ukrainians who mainly consider Russian as their native language, and about 290-300 thousand Crimean Tatars, many of which, As demonstrated held in Crimea on March 16 referendum, also focused on the Russian Federation.

Crimean region, part of the RSFSR, was in February 1954 transferred to the Ukrainian SSR by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

The main statements of the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov at a press conference at the meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations, see


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