Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Russian, interpreted as follows:] I am afraid I do not have enough information to be able to answer, but I can say that we're well aware that Canada has been doing a lot for many years, working on various projects to support us and Ukraine. We're very grateful

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Russian, interpreted as follows:] There have been outcries from people, and they have been kidnapped or murdered or jailed, and they cannot raise an outcry from there. Russians in all their speeches are saying proudly that all the citizens who live in Crimea

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Russian, interpreted as follows:] Of course, the Mejlis is very important for them. Back in 2011, we saw instructions for the FSB, which said that the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people was the greatest obstacle in implementing the strategic interests of Russi

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Russian, interpreted as follows:] On the Crimean peninsula, Russia's not interested in the economic situation there. The Crimean peninsula is being fully funded by the budget of the Russian Federation, and Russian economists are saying that the annual upkeep o

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Russian, interpreted as follows:] Crimea had the Kyzyltash nuclear base near Simferopol. It was built in 1952; the construction finished in 1954, after the death of Stalin. About 5,000 prisoners worked on the construction site, and after that, for secrecy, all

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Russian, interpreted as follows:] I think all this will be possible after the main perpetrator is arrested. It's Mr. Putin. Of course, as long as he's in power, they will find refuge in the Russian Federation. With regard to the international federation, in Ap

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Russian, interpreted as follows:] When I start analyzing how these countries voted during the general assembly and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and so on—particularly the general assembly—I am just amazed at the number of countries that

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Russian, interpreted as follows:] First of all, as you know, it's not just the Crimean Tatars who were deported. The Soviet government committed genocide against about 13 peoples, including English people, etc. It was done strategically in order to remove from

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Russian, interpreted as follows:] I have to say that Russian propaganda keeps saying that they had to send their troops to Crimea because there was an illegal seizure of power in Ukraine and that the people who came to power were a threat to the Russians who li

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Russian, interpreted as follows:] As you rightly mentioned, as soon as the Russian Federation entered Crimea, it got rid of all democratic institutions. They were all put under the control of Russian occupiers. You could say only what was to the liking of the

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Russian, interpreted as follows:] First of all, we are of course grateful for the sanctions that have been imposed on the aggressor state so far. We are grateful for the reaction of the international community, including Canada, to the occupation of Crimea. I

Foreign Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Russian, interpreted as follows:] Members of the committee, it is a great honour to be here today and to have the opportunity to testify about what's going on in occupied Crimea. We came here because of the 75th anniversary of the genocide of the Crimean Tat