Need to share this article that Xavier Colas has written six years ago interviewing me, pro-Western, and Tatiana Bridko, pro-Russian, (to give two opinions on the annexation) for El Mundo publication in Spanish. You can read it via not-perfect GOOGLE translation tool below. All the rights are of the author and a publication copied from El Mundo web-page . Crimea: between empire and freedom XAVIER COLÁS Updated: 04/05/2014 00:17 hours 14 When Nara Narimanova was a child, she had one country under her feet and another on her head. The first was called Uzbekistan, a conservative land where Soviet inertia and Muslim traditions are walls that few can break. There was a very different place in his mind: Crimea. From there Stalin kicked out her grandparents, Tatars, in May 1944. For her and her parents, this region was a distant paradise that they had never trodden. A mission to accomplish, a place to return ...
Dear reader, Welcome to my blog! I hope you will find interesting facts about countries that I have visited or lived in, human rights and a lifestyle. It might be hectic, but these are my interests. I am based in Amherst, Massachusetts. I am a Fulbright Scholar from Ukraine. I lived in four countries and worked as a leader of advocates supporting Ukraine’s democracy. Best, Nara Narimanova