On the Issue of Commemorative Practices and The Emergence of New Public Traditions in the Ukrainian Community of Crimea After the Beginning of Aggression of Russia in 2014-2020
Journal: Ukrainian Studies
Year: 2021

Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, seized by Russia in 2014, have become, according to human rights activists, a "territory of fear", where human and civil rights are massively and systematically violated, and the rights of the Crimean Tatar people and ethnic Ukrainians are discriminated. The policy of the occupying power threatened the preservation of the Ukrainian identity in Crimea and creates the preconditions for the assimilation of Crimean Ukrainians in general. Among other negative practi