Last week, we wrote about how the criminal “authorities” are now actively promoting the campaign for Crimean residents to “sign contracts” for the aggressor’s army, through “representatives of national-cultural autonomies and the clergy,” whom figures in the so-called “State Committee for Interethnic Relations,” like Aikuya Harutyunyan, demand “fulfillment of targets.”
On February 10, the “chairman” of the aforementioned “state committee,” a collaborator Ruslan Yakubov, made similar statements in the context of Crimeans performing the Hajj—the Muslim religious pilgrimage to Mecca.
While boasting about supposedly “large quotas,” Yakubov simultaneously recalled some “organizational problems” in 2025, “when many pilgrims were unable to obtain visas,”
letting it slip that when “selecting pilgrims,” the occupiers pay special attention to their “military registration documents,” and without these “properly completed,” no one from Crimea can leave for the Hajj.
This confirmed our previously received information that, when compiling “lists of those wishing to perform the Hajj,” the occupiers explicitly indicate to those intending to perform the Hajj that “their family must include a member of the occupiers’ military.”
Thus, the occupiers are systematically exploiting the religious factor to further militarize the peninsula’s population.
Against this backdrop, a rather characteristic event recently occurred in Seitler (Nizhnegorsk), where the occupiers herded representatives of the “distict’s Muslim religious communities.” At this “meeting,” the criminal “deputy head of the administration, chief architect of the district,” Lenur Mamedlyaev, gave them a “political briefing” on the “implementation of state national policy and countering extremist ideology.”
In essence, the “political briefing” boiled down to a rather simple demand from the occupiers: to prevent Crimean Tatars from gathering for funerals and prayers.
The ban was announced under the guise of “fire safety” and “compliance with cemetery regulations,” with the gathering threatened with “criminal liability” for “extremism and illegal burial.”
