Halya Coynash: Stark warning of bloody provocation planned against Crimean Tatars
Officers the Russian riot police force OMON take part a training session in the Crimean capital Simferopol, on May 17 2014, ahead of the 70th anniversary of the 1944 Crimean Tatars deportation by the Soviet Union, a major day of mourning.
The warning from a well-known Russian analyst that Russia could be planning to use methods seen in the Caucasus to stage a provocation and then a bloody crackdown against Crimean Tatars is difficult to dismiss, and not only because of the virulent propaganda campaign in the Russian and other pro-Kremlin media.