An Evening on Crimea

Please join Razom and the Ukrainian Institute of America for a discussion on Crimea, human rights, war crimes, and what's to come on Sunday 10 July at 6:00 pm.

The discussion will feature Tamila Tasheva - Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Co-Founder of Crimea SOS and Maria Tomak - Head of the Crimea Platform Department at the Mission of the President of Ukraine in Crimea, joined by Ayla Bakkalli - US Representative of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, Representative of the Crimean Tatars at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Opening remarks will be delivered by the evening's special guest, Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations.

Read more about Maria and Tamila in a profile on their work by the New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/the-ukrainian-officials-leading-double-lives-over-dinner

Following the discussion, there will be contemporary Ukrainian music by Ukrainian DJ Daria Kolomiec.

Registration is required! Please observe all Covid safety rules and regulations.

More info:

The Crimea Platform is a new international consultation and coordination format set up to develop the initiative put forward by President of Ukraine and aimed at improving the effectiveness of the international response to the ongoing occupation of Crimea, responding to growing security threats, increasing international pressure on the Kremlin, preventing further rights violations and protecting victims of the occupation regime, as well as achieving the main goal, which is to ensure that Russia ceases the occupation of Crimea and the Ukrainian government regains control of the peninsula.

https://crimea-platform.org/en

In April of this year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree appointing Tamila Tasheva to the post of Permanent Representative of the President in Crimea.

Tamila Tasheva was born in 1985 in Samarkand to a family of deported Crimean Tatars. Since 1991, after the return of her family from Uzbekistan to Crimea, she lived in Simferopol and graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Languages of Tavriya University. She was an active participant in the Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Dignity.

In 2014, after the annexation of Crimea, Tasheva and like-minded people founded the public organization Crimea SOS, whose mission is to help internally displaced persons from Crimea and Donbas and monitor human rights violations in the occupied territories.

https://babel.ua/en/news/78029-zelensky-appointed-tamila-tasheva-the-president-s-permanent-representative-in-crimea