In the Supreme court of the Crimea began consideration on the merits of the criminal case against former Deputy Prime Minister of the Peninsula Lenura Islyamova, who fled to Ukraine and from there organized the blockade of the region. Policy charged under two articles of the criminal code: “the Sabotage committed by a group of persons and caused significant material damage” and “Public appeals to implementation of actions aimed at violating Russia’s territorial integrity”.
the press service of the Supreme court of the Republic stressed that pandemic coronavirus to the meeting are allowed only direct participants in the process. The materials of the case went to trial in April, and the preliminary hearing took place on may 8.
Recall from 4 April to 28 may 2014 islyamov was appointed Vice Premier of Crimea, however, for two months of occupying a high position, he does not remember the Crimeans. According to official data, he had just become Deputy Chairman of the organizing Committee on preparation of events dedicated to the Day of memory of victims of deportation and head of the organizing Committee on preparation to celebration of national holiday “Hydarnes” (symbolizing the beginning of field work, which eventually did not take place). So no one was surprised when the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov dismissed him with the words “for professional impropriety”.
In may 2014 first Deputy Chairman of the state Council of the Republic Grigory Ioffe, commenting on the resignation Islyamova, said that he too worked closely with the now banned in Russia and declared an extremist organization “the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars”, although it was originally warned about the inadmissibility of such communication. Apparently, a future defendant in a criminal case tried to sit on two chairs, but could not.
whatever it was, immediately after the resignation islyamov went to Ukraine, where he became one of the organizers of food and energy blockade of the Peninsula. Fighters of the volunteer battalion “Donbass” was undermined by power lines in the Kherson region, causing the Crimea in the winter were left without electricity and heating. Lenur islyamov covered militants, promising to hide them from justice.
of Course, in Ukraine it is often asked how and why he cooperated with the Crimean authorities. Islyamov says that it in the government of the Crimea has delegated the Kurultay of the Crimean Tatars. Supposedly he had to spend a little time to ease the tension between Russians and Crimean Tatars. Technically all of it was so – the future organizer of sabotage really were sent to the government in the “national quota”, that’s just another Crimean Tatar Zaur Smirnov the same way and then headed the State Committee of Crimea on interethnic relations, but stayed in office 3.5 years.
In Russia knew how Islyamova Moscow mi��of liner. In particular, he was the owner of the Bank, a transport company, a Crimean Tatar TV channel and network of stores equipment. But as soon as islyamov fled to the Ukraine, his business in Russia began to crumble. The final chord was the blockade of the Peninsula, with the beginning which finally ran out of his Russian business Empire.
– If Lenur islyamov and influential, but only in a very narrow and often marginalized community. It definitely cannot be called a figure of all-Ukrainian scale, opinion leaders and so on, – said Ukrainian lawyer and an expert of “Castrato” Cyril sheep. In my opinion, 80% of Ukrainians will not be able to immediately tell who he is and what he is doing now. Probably some weight it has among the Crimean Tatar activists, but for the rest islyamov means nothing. In Ukraine, there is a lot of “fun” events, against which he lost.
overall, this figure even the third and fourth plan. The organization of the blockade of the Crimea is also not found universal support for the Ukrainian society. It was not perceived as something positive. Most people believed that the blockade does not solve the problem of the Peninsula. In the public mind, the event has established itself more as a media event. Today, the blockade practically does not remind about itself.
However, even if the Crimean Islyamova court will issue a guilty verdict for the organization of a blockade of the Peninsula, it will not lead to some significant consequences. First, Ukraine does not recognize the decision of the courts of the Crimea. Second, most countries also do not consider the Crimea as part of Russia. Of course, Russia will fix the blame Islyamova, but make him can not do anything. Of course, Islyamova have Russian citizenship, so technically, Moscow can make requests for his detention in different countries. But global changes in the international arena, to it threatens nothing.
