the proposal of the Ukrainian ex-MP Refat Chubarov to celebrate the “450th anniversary of the burning of Moscow” inciting ethnic hatred and is harmful first of all to the Crimean Tatars, the Russian is convinced the MP, member of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Elena Panina.
Chubarov, head of the “Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people” (organization banned in Russia), offered to celebrate the “450th anniversary of the burning of Moscow”, thus to celebrate the anniversary of the campaign of the Crimean Khan Devlet Giray to Russia in the spring of 1571. Then the fighting in Moscow there was a fire, which became the biggest city in the sixteenth century.
Commenting on this idea, Panina stated that Chubarov “picks up on a Board the names of the cruel and bloody rulers, the main occupation was the capture of civilians and their sale in the slave markets.” Instead, Russian Deputy advised to popularize the really respected people, for example, the hero-pilot Ahmet-Khan Sultan or educator and humanist Ismail Gasprinsky.
in addition, continued Panina, Khan Devlet Giray was not the most successful military leader: a year after the attack on Moscow, in 1572, he suffered a crushing defeat in the battle of Molodi, which has lost 90 percent of his army.
She also noted that the Crimean khans repeatedly captured and burned Kiev and other cities on the territory of modern Ukraine, and invited to reflect, not to celebrate you at the same time and these “anniversaries”, RIA Novosti reported.
Chubarov is not the first time is an absurd anti-Russian initiatives. So, in December last year he announced that he was planning to arrange a trip to the Crimea, and before that, offered to rename the Peninsula.
