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Crimea: between empire and freedom,- interview with Nara Narimanova for El Mundo publications

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 ...