Signs with Crimean Tatar street names dismantled in Crimea

In Sudak, on the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea, signs with Crimean Tatar street names are being dismantled. They are being replaced with signs in Russian only.

This was reported by Krym.Realii.

We are talking primarily about the Achiklar district - a place where in the 1990s Crimean Tatars after returning from deportation arbitrarily arranged housing. They created streets and gave them their own, unofficial names in the Crimean Tatar language.

After 2014, when Crimea was occupied by Russia, most residents of Achiklar remained loyal to Ukraine and did not transfer their land plots to the Russian legal framework. Because of this, the local administration did not formally recognize these streets, and in 2020 decided to give them new official names in Russian. Five years later, the occupation authorities began dismantling the signs with the names of the streets in the Crimean Tatar language, arguing that they "have no legal force."

According to the local historian, such actions not only destroy the historical memory and national identity of the area, but also damage the city's reputation as a resort.

Since the beginning of the year, the ARC Prosecutor's Office has brought more than 240 cases against Crimean judges to court, most of which have resulted in sentences for cooperation with the occupation authorities. In the criminal proceedings, the pre-trial investigation of which was carried out by the Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine in the ARC, indictments have already been sent to court against 25 people who served as judges in illegal structures on the occupied peninsula.

Earlier, three judges from Crimea administered "justice" on behalf of the Russians, thus contributing to the functioning of the occupation judicial system on the peninsula. All of them are citizens of Ukraine who agreed to cooperate with the occupation authorities in 2022-2024.

Катерина Глушко