A NEW VOICE FOR THE CRIMEAN TATARS?

A self- styled CrimeanTatar National Movement which rejects Tatar national demandsand supports Crimea’s "integration into Russia" hasmade its appearance, at least in the pages of Moscow’s Obshchayagazeta June 29-July 5. The CTNM is cited as believing thatthe Crimean Tatars were behind the recent violence. The appearanceof such a report suggests that Moscow hopes to set up an ostensible"Tatar opposition" to the generally pro-Ukrainian Crimean Tatar establishment.

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