Crimean Tatars Go Online

On April 2 the Crimean Tatars-Crimea-Ukraine web-site (www.crimeatau.org.ua), launched with the assistance of the International Renaissance Foundation, was presented. Its key structural elements include news columns, a topical interview, an analyst’s page, etc., which The Day and various information agencies will contribute to, with the latest news to be independently covered by site reporters. The site creators maintain that the problem of Crimean Tatars remains out of the public and media eye, with crises in the autonomous republic often followed by inadequate and superficial reports in the print and electronic mass media. Such reporting complicates the dialogue between the Crimean Tatar people and the authorities, which in turn impedes the repatriates’ integration into the peninsula’s community. Crimean Tatar Majlis Deputy Chairman Refat Chubarov believes such integration is possible only under conditions of a purposeful dialogue with the Crimean Tatar people, which the mass media also need to facilitate, The Day’s Mykhailo ZUBAR reports.