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From RFE/RL News Desk:
Leaders of Crimea's Tatars called off a ceremony to commemorate 70 years since their deportation by Stalin.
The Mejlis, the Crimean Tatars' main representative body, announced its decision on May 17, one day after authorities in Ukraine's peninsula, annexed by Russia in March, banned all public gatherings until June 6.
In a statement on its website, the Mejlis said "no mass rallies will take place in the center of Simferopol" on May 18.
It called instead for Tatars to gather at religious centers and other locations.
Tens of thousands usually gather for the rally in Simferopol, marking the day on May 18, 1944 when Soviet authorities began deporting Crimean Tatars to Central Asia. Many of the 200,000 deportees died on their way into exile.
The United Nations on May 16 voiced concern about "serious problems" of harassment and persecution of Crimean Tatars since the region's annexation.
Leaders of Crimea's Tatars called off a ceremony to commemorate 70 years since their deportation by Stalin.
The Mejlis, the Crimean Tatars' main representative body, announced its decision on May 17, one day after authorities in Ukraine's peninsula, annexed by Russia in March, banned all public gatherings until June 6.
In a statement on its website, the Mejlis said "no mass rallies will take place in the center of Simferopol" on May 18.
It called instead for Tatars to gather at religious centers and other locations.
Tens of thousands usually gather for the rally in Simferopol, marking the day on May 18, 1944 when Soviet authorities began deporting Crimean Tatars to Central Asia. Many of the 200,000 deportees died on their way into exile.
The United Nations on May 16 voiced concern about "serious problems" of harassment and persecution of Crimean Tatars since the region's annexation.
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17.5.2014
From "Global Post" - 3 Things Everybody Should Know About Ukraine.
Read the whole report here.
GlobalPost correspondent Dan Peleschuk spent the past two weeks traveling Ukraine from its industrialized, pro-Russian east to its pro-European, patriotic west and returned with the following impressions everyone should know about what’s really happening in the crisis-riddled country.
Read the whole report here.
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