At the end of October, the occupiers held their annual “Congress of Ukrainian compatriots” in Yalta, along with a corresponding roundtable discussion on “Developing ties between Crimean Ukrainians and compatriots abroad.”
The permanent “talking heads” of this tragicomedy, the aging Russian spy Georgy Muradov and collaborator Anastasia Gridchina, made no secret of the only real purpose of this event, “with its hopak and bandura players”: promoting the “Russian world” and the idea of a “united people” in third countries.
Attempts to combine such shows with the aggressor’s genocidal practices against ethnic Ukrainians and the Ukrainian language lead to rather telling results.
After all, the collaborators failed to showcase any actual Ukrainians at the “congress” and “round table,” and so they delegated the task of talking about the “friendship of peoples” to such “honorary Ukrainians” as Ayder Tippa and Rustem Yakubov.
However, the most tragicomic twist was the involvement in this show of Andrei Romanchuk, “Secretary of the board of the Russian Cultural and Educational Society” and “member of the Coordinating Council of the Organization of Russian Compatriots” in Poland, with his tales of “Polish Russophobia.”
Let us recall that Russian intelligence agencies had previously exploited this same Romanchuk “in conjunction” with Gridchina and Muradov, distributing “touching” material about the “celebration of the memory of Emperor Nicholas II” by the very same “Russian Cultural and Educational Society in Poland” in the Polish village of Bialowieza.
The previously mentioned Romanchuk, among other subversive activities against the Polish authorities, was already “involved” in organizing a trip to occupied Crimea for “winners of a children’s art competition” in 2015.
We previously wrote that the “links” between such an aggressor propaganda and sabotage structure as the “Russian Cultural and Educational Society” in Poland and occupied Crimea, despite their caricature, are not surprising and clearly require the special attention of Polish law enforcement.
