In early June, the aggressor-controlled Crimean “media” announced the “participation of a Crimean delegation” in the 15th Republican Festival of National Cultures held in the Grodno Region of Belarus.
The main “partner” of the Crimean collaborators brought to Grodno and their permanent overseer, Mikhail Solomentsev, the previously described protégé of Georgy Muradov, was the aggressor’s local consulate.
To circumvent the obvious disregard for the “Crimean delegation” by the authorities, even in a regime as “loyal” to the Kremlin as the current Minsk regime, the organizers of this trip applied the previously proven “Uzbek experience,” where all sorts of fake “agreements” were signed with schools and the like.
This time, “agreements with Crimean colleagues” were announced for the Iwye Museum of National Cultures and the Iwye Secondary School, with the so-called Bakhchisarai “A.I. Maltsev School Academy” and the “Yalta Historical and Literary Museum” acting as counterparties.
The Russian intelligence services’ focus on the city of Iwye was far from accidental—a significant number of Belarusian Tatars have traditionally lived there for centuries.
And so, in addition to the “chief Crimean Belarusian” Roman Chegrinets, and the “Crimean newspaper” propagandists like Maria Volkonskaya, the Crimean Tatar collaborators were spotted in the train of the current “Crimean delegation”: “deputy Mufti” Raim Gafarov, “rector” and “state council deputy” Chingis Yakubov, as well as the fake “chairman of the state committee” Ruslan Yakubov, and “ensemble director” Elmira Nalbantova.
