CTRC representatives told students about resistance to the Russian occupation of Crimea

On Tuesday, April 30, Eskender Bariiev, Chairman of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, and Tetyana Savchuk, Communications Manager of the CTRC, held a mentoring hour at the Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University.

Eskender Bariiev, Chairman of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Chairman of the Department of External Relations and Human Rights Protection of  Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, told the students about the occupation of Crimea in 2014, the course of all events, the active resistance to Russian aggression and the indigenous peoples of Ukraine.

Bariiev separately dwelt on the activities of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center and the directions of the organization’s work:

Ensuring the collective rights of the Crimean Tatar people and the individual rights of citizens of Ukraine;

monitoring and documenting human rights violations and war crimes of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine;

development of draft normative acts of Ukraine;

supporting cultural and educational initiatives;

ensuring monitoring and analysis of the components of Crimea’s sustainable development;

realization of informational and educational activities.

Tetyana Savchuk elaborated on the role of information resistance in the de-occupation of Crimea using the example of the #LIBERATECRIMEA information campaign.