CRIMEAN TATAR PARTY HOLDS CONSTITUENT CONGRESS.

The CrimeanTatar Adalet ("Justice") party held its first congressin Simferopol August 19, Russian and Ukrainian media reported. The party, which seeks Crimean autonomy within Ukraine and therestoration of Islamic shariat law on that peninsula, failed toattract most of the region’s more prominent Crimean Tatar activists.And it remains an open question whether the Ukrainian authoritieswill be willing to register this group as a political party.