Birkbeck's Big Ideas: Russia's Annexation of Crimea, and the Fate of the Crimean Tatars
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Birkbeck's Big Ideas is a series of FREE events, designed to inspire and bring world class Birkbeck academics to the local community
The series will run every 2nd Wednesday of the month, from July to May 2017, with this third installment from Professor Bill Bowring
Was Russia justified in annexing Crimea in 2014? Was Crimea part of Russia or of Ukraine? What was the Crimean War 1853-6 about? Did Ukraine exist before WWII? Who are the Crimean Tatars? Are they the indigenous people of Crimea? What are their rights? Why did Ukraine refuse them citizenship when they started to return in the 1980s? Why has Russia now banned their representative body, the Mejlis? Bill Bowring has been travelling to Crimea and working with the Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians and Russians since the 1990s, and will try to answer these questions.
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