Posted on 01/19/2006 7:49:37 AM PST by x5452
Crimean Tatars Call On Kyiv To Restore Their Rights 12 December 2005 -- Members of the Crimean Tatar Congress gathered in the main Crimean city Simferopol said yesterday that Ukraine's integration with the West should not go forward until Kyiv restores Tatar rights.
Congressional delegates, issuing a statement at the end of the three-day session, accused Ukrainian authorities of disregarding the rights of Crimean Tatars, who were deported en masse by Soviet leader Josef Stalin in 1944.
RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reported that congress member Timur Dagci was among the voices calling for Kyiv to recognize the deportation as genocide:
"Our problem -- the problem of Stalin's genocide of the Crimean Tatar people -- is an undeniable fact, so I believe all countries, the United Nations, and the European Union will recognize it and will decide that it was indeed genocide," Dagci said.
Many Tatars have since returned to Crimea, but have been unable to reclaim valuable land and property that was theirs before the deportations.
The Tatar Congress delegates called on the Council of Europe and the European Union to make Ukraine's possible membership in the EU and World Trade Organization contingent on their recognition of Crimean Tatar rights.
(RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service/Interfax)
You're mixing church rights and state rights again.
Ukraine language law:
Article 9. Language of Tele-radio Broadcasts and Programs.
Tele-radio organizations shall broadcast in the state language.
Broadcasts in certain regions may also be in the language of national minorities densely inhabiting those areas.
Broadcasts to foreign audiences shall be in Ukrainian or the corresponding foreign language.
Language of Broadcasting. Another interesting issue is the language of state broadcasting. Article 6 of the Law on National Minorities (1992) guarantees the minorities the right to national-cultural autonomy, which includes the use of their native language and “the satisfaction of [their] needs in literature, art, and the mass media.” Meanwhile, Article 9 of the Broadcasting Law requires broadcasting in the state language (Ukrainian) except to those regions densely populated by minorities. At this time, the basic languages of the mass media are Ukrainian and Russian.
By the Law on State Language, commercials are permitted only if they are broadcast in Ukrainian; therefore all the Snickers and Wrigley are brought there with the help of Ukrainian rhymes. Major advertisers are banks, insurance companies, automobile dealers, and joint ventures (“Tetrapak,” “Tampax”).
Most of Poles consider Józef Pilsudski who defeated Soviet communism, the second greatest Pole ever right behind Pope John Paul II another Polish person that you hate. So in other words you are claiming that majority of current generations of Poles is fascist. Once again being offended by National Boslhevick scum is a complement for all Poles.
Protesters attempt to obstruct pastoral visit by Patriarch Filaret
From Ukraine Weekly
Protesters from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarch (UOC-MP) attempted to obstruct the pastoral visit to Crimea on June 23-25 of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), Patriarch Filaret (Denysenko).
According to Keston News Service (KNS), the patriarch denies that the demonstrations disrupted his program and claims that he fulfilled everything he planned. The Crimean eparchy of the UOC-KP has several parishes but does not have a bishop and is under the direct supervision of Patriarch Filaret.
Officials of the Crimean eparchy of the rival UOC-MP have denied that they organized protests, describing them as spontaneous expressions of ordinary Church members' feelings. However, according to RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report, Archbishop Lazar of the UOC-MP eparchy in Crimea issued an appeal prior to Patriarch Filaret's visit that people protest his arrival at the airport in Symferopol. Before the patriarch's visit, posters were put up in the UOC-MP's churches in Symferopol and throughout Crimea declaring that Crimea was not a place for the "schismatic." [Patriarch Filaret once belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church and was a metropolitan of the UOC-MP, but was anathematised by the Rusian Orthodox Church and labeled a "schismatic" after he was elected patriarch of the competing UOC-KP-ed.]
According to KNS, protests marked Patriarch Filaret's entire visit, with pickets gathered along his expected route. Many protesters held banners with slogans such as "Filaret - get out of Crimea" and "Anathema to Denysenko."
Hundreds of protesters were out in force at his point of arrival, Symferopol airport, where the police had to move them further away to allow the normal work of the airport to proceed, according to KNS. Patriarch Filaret's vehicle had to leave the airport along a different road. And, according to UOC-MP sources quoted by Interfax, "Patriarch Filaret had to sneak into Sevastopol across fields."
In Sevastopol, where the patriarch had planned to visit Khersones (the site of Kyivan Rus' Grand Prince Volodymyr's baptism), meet the city authorities and bless the students of the Ukrainian Naval Institute, he visited only the Institute of Nuclear Physics.
The Rev. Paisi, secretary of the UOC-MP eparchy in Sevastopol, told KNS on July 14 in an interview in Khersones that he objected to a "pastoral visit" by the leader of a group that he said has "neither a single parish nor a parishioner" in Sevastopol. "As for Khersones," he continued, "it is not quite true that Filaret was not allowed there, or maybe quite untrue. There were simply believers who stood with banners expressing their opinion about Filaret. He probably did not want to see those people and called the director of the reserved zone [Khersones] to say that he was canceling his visit. It is a very conventional notion - 'was not allowed' - he himself did not want to come." Defending the demonstrators' actions, the Rev. Paisi added: "We also are entitled to express our feelings."
According to RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report, the press service of the UOC-KP denied that Patriarch Filaret's trip to Crimea had been ruined by the UOC-MP. The press service admitted that an attempt to prevent Patriarch Filaret from entering Crimea was made at Symferopol airport, but it said that "the authorities of the Republic of Crimea did everything possible to prevent any confrontation on religious grounds."
The press service listed a number of meetings and religious services held by Patriarch Filaret during his three-day stay in Crimea, underscoring that there were no "conflicts or clashes between believers."
In a telephone interview with KNS on July 4, Patriarch Filaret maintained that the whole program of the visit went well. "I visited Sofiyivka, a village not far from Symferopol, where I consecrated the cross at the location of the construction of a new church, then I had a meeting with the Crimean clergymen. I also visited Sevastopol Nuclear Naval Academy, where I was present at the graduation ceremony, and visited Bakhchesarai, where I had a meeting with Mustafa Jemilev, the chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, and Mufti of the Crimea Emir Ali Ablayev. On June 25 I served the liturgy in our Symferopol church. I was told that there were pickets in Symferopol airport, but I did not see them personally," he was quoted as saying.
Efforts by KNS to find out from the Metropolitanate of the UOC-MP in Kyiv whether it was aware of the protests instigated by the Crimean eparchy and whether it had approved them failed. In the absence of Metropolitan Volodymyr [Slobodan], the senior hierarch of the UOC-MP, nobody would take the responsibility of commenting on the actions of the Crimean eparchy. The Crimean eparchy failed to respond to KNS requests during the first two weeks of July for comments on the obstruction of Patriarch Filaret's visit.
Asked by KNS whether the eparchy had instigated the rally in Sevastopol, the Rev. Paisi declared: "No, people understand everything themselves." He claimed that Patriarch Filaret had not complained of any "aggressive actions" by believers.
According to KNS, during his meeting with Mr. Jemilev, Patriarch Filaret deplored the actions of the local Orthodox Church in Crimea, such as setting up crosses and religious placards that are found all over the peninsula, complaining that in a multi-confessional society such as Crimea, these types of actions create inter-confessional tension.
One of the issues also discussed during the meeting was the prospect of recognition of the UOC-KP by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
Potatoes demanding rights?
lol
Russia should support a Tatar Republic in Crimea, and give support to the Tatars while they get their autonomy.
Yuschi has enough to think about, and anyway, he wont get help from the Europeans, who just love breakaway underdog groups. (for example their reaction to the Chechans)
Once there is a Tatar Republic, they will be glad to be free, so they will give Russia the lighthouse and naval base.
Are you somehow related with Bill Clinton? LOL
Wow, Lukasz, yup, that's a Nazi statement if I ever saw one. You're worse at this then Spany and Tailgunner. Gads, give up the ghost while you still can.
He persecuted minority Orthodox Christians in stolen Ukrainian and Belaruss lands on top of things.
How does that make those people any different from those who still worship Hitler, who also fought to defeat Communism but was also a fascist dictator?
Enough said, you've proved my point for me.
You're an ignorant liar on top of things. I never claimed to hate the Pontif. I admired his courage and tenacity, even if I didn't agree with many of his policies.
Yea all Poles are Nazis and fascists.
Actually Nazi would represent membership in the Nazi party, fascist would represent holding the idealogy without membership.
All Poles are fascists, I'm so happy that after so many disscussion we finnally get a conclussion. People whom admire fascist simply are fascist, nothing to hide.
If you say so.
Dont be so shy, after all it is you and jb6 the ones who proffed it.
Your stupid words not mine, so don't even try to act like your leftist self and plant that crap in my mouth. Those who worship at the alter of fascists are, just like those few in Germany who still love Hitler. That you seem to fit that bill...well that's your problem.
What's Tatars, Precious?
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