Vishchyk Maksym, Moiseieva Anastasiia. Crimean Tatars: Eight years of anything but marginal resistance
On 3 March 2022, Professor Alain Pellet published a reflection on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, drawing parallels to the 2014 occupation of Crimea. With the eighth anniversary of the Crimean ‘referendum’ approaching, this post will respond to Prof. Pellet’s thoughts on the Crimean Tatars and their ‘marginal’, according to Prof. Pellet, reaction to Russia’s activities in Crimea since 2014. This post will also address the ensuing human rights violations and crimes that were committed against the Crimean Tatars in 2014 and beyond, which formed a campaign of persecution and racial discrimination persisting to date.