The replacement of the population of the occupied Crimea by Russian citizens continues

According to analysts’ estimates, the scale of replacement of the population of the occupied Crimea by imported Russians has reached 1 million people. Russians from the Far East, the Far North, the Caucasus, Krasnodar and other regions of Russia go to the peninsula. The Russian Federation creates good conditions for its citizens who move to Crimea, and massively builds housing for the military. Gayana Yuksel, a member of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, told about this on March 1.

“Crimean Platform” tries to monitor these processes, in particular, through the information provided by the so-called Crimean authorities. Yes, at first the figure of 300,000-400,000 displaced people was announced, then there was a figure of 600,000. And now we can already talk about one million displaced people to the territory of Crimea, who were brought from the territory of mainland Russia,” she said.

According to her, it is quite difficult to count, because these are all indirect studies based on calculations that, in particular, are published by Russia.

“At first, representatives of the administrative sphere and the power bloc went there. Because, despite the fact that Russia tried to allegedly create such an image that the Crimeans, the inhabitants of Crimea, wanted to join Russia, and tried to use local collaborators, nevertheless, for key positions, especially in the power bloc and some administrative ones, it put their people who came from Russia,” said a member of the Mejlis.

Russian citizens continue to go to the peninsula, in particular due to self-serving motives, Yuksel stressed.

“We know the policy pursued by Russia there. Certain conditions are created, land plots are allocated, material assistance is provided. Moreover, it is enough for the purchase of one- or two-room apartments, some plots near the sea are being cut,” she explained.

In addition, construction for the needs of the Russian military is actively underway on the territory of Crimea.

“In Dzhankoya, Sevastopol and other cities, high-rise buildings are being built where you can come and live if you are a representative of a certain system or structure. People are going. Plus, they came there from, conditionally, neighboring regions: the Caucasus, Krasnodar and other regions. Although they also come from the far North, they come from the Far East, trying to find something in Crimea, probably something that they could not find earlier in their lives,” Gayana Yuksel summed up.