On Tuesday, February 2, at 17:10, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center and the Mir and Co Charitable Foundation presented an exclusive documentary film Crimea. Dehydration at the Zhovten cinema. The picture was presented by the Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, member of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Eskender Bariiev and the film’s author Myroslav Hai.
The film presentation was attended by:
Eskender Bariiev – Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Head of the Department for Legal Affairs and Foreign Affairs of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People,
Myroslav Hai is the author of the film.
The event was also attended by all the team members who worked on the creation of the tape and experts from the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, whose expertise was used as the basis for the film.
The film raises one of the most pressing topics of our time: the shortage of water on the peninsula, and highlights the irrational approach of the Russian authorities to the use of water resources. Do Crimeans need water from the Dnipro? Are the occupiers really trying to resolve this issue? And who really lacks water? The answers to all these and other questions were provided by the experts of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center in this film.
Eskender Bariiev emphasized in his speech that there has long been a problem with fresh water in Crimea. The so-called cult of water and an economical attitude are integral parts of the mentality of the indigenous people of Crimea – the Crimean Tatars.
“The team of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center systematically monitors the state of the environment in the occupied Crimea. We have sent reports on the real situation with water to international organizations and a special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, who is preparing a report on the global water crisis and human rights”,- he stressed.
The author of the film, Myroslav Hai, noted that this is not an ordinary documentary film, but a visualization of the scientific expertise of specialists from the Crimean Tatar Resource Center. This is an investigation about the catastrophe that is now unfolding before the eyes of all mankind.
“In fact, this is a detective, documentary investigation with confirmation of all the facts that were announced. All evidence was collected, including from Russian television channels. The problem of water supply to Crimea is not a narrow issue that should only concern Russia or Ukraine, or the Crimeans. This is an ecological situation that should concern the whole of Europe and the whole world”,-he explained.
MPs of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, members of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, representatives of state authorities, activists, volunteers, public figures, journalists and others came to watch the film and congratulate the authors on the premiere.
