Veteran Crimean Tatar Leader: 'We Don't Believe Russian Promises'
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Veteran Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev said he asked the UN Security Council to send peacekeeping forces to Crimea. Speaking to VOA's Russian Service after addressing an informal Security Council meeting on March 31 in New York, he described the sanctions currently imposed on Russia as insufficient. Dzhemilev also said Crimean Tatars had little reason to trust Moscow after being forced out of their native land by tsarist and then Soviet authorities.