A street information exhibition ‘QIRIM IÇÜN / For the sake of Crimea’ will open in the centre of Kyiv, near the Main Post Office on Khreshchatyk, on 12 May at 13:00. It is timed to coincide with the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar People, which is commemorated annually on 18 May. This was reported by Ukrinform with reference to the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
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The aim of the exhibition is to honour the memory of the victims of deportation and to promote knowledge about the Crimean Tatar people. It is intended to remind the public of the historical tragedies experienced by the Crimean Tatars – from the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire in the 18th century to the genocide of 1944. Repressions during the Soviet period and the current Russian occupation.
The exhibition will become a space for understanding the history of Crimea as part of the Ukrainian political and cultural space. According to the Presidential Mission, the exhibition will help to understand why Crimea is not only a territory, but also a symbol of the struggle for rights, dignity and statehood. The authors of the exhibition texts – scholars, journalists and representatives of the Crimean Tatar community – sought to make it not only informative but also a lively form of dialogue.
The opening ceremony will feature speeches by Refat Chubarov, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Denys Chystikov, Deputy Permanent Representative of the President in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Mavile Khalil, journalist and psychologist, and Martin-Olexander Kyslyy, lecturer at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He is also head of the Crimean Studies Centre.
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