BAKHCHYSARAI, Ukraine – Mustafa Dzhemilev, the long-time leader of the Crimean Tatars has been banned from the peninsula since Russia annexed the Ukrainian region in March 2014. But his wife, Safinar Dzhemileva, remains in Crimea, living in a large house in Bakhchysarai, the traditional capital of the Crimean Tatar nation. She welcomed RFE/RL’s Mumin Shakirov...
‘Just give us our freedom,’ says wife of exiled Crimean Tatar leader
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