For Crimean Tatars, a Muslim minority group that returned to their ancestral home in Crimea after 1989, the Russian annexation in March 2014 was a hard blow. Three years later, the European Union is pushing back against the latest U.S. sanctions on Russia, passed by Congress in July. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel even floated the possibility that the E.U. would turn a blind eye to the contested status of Crimea.
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Noam Lupu, Leonid Peisakhin: Why are Crimean Tatars so hostile to Russia?
A Crimean Tatar man holds a sign that reads 'Referendum not legitimate!' during a peaceful demonstration of Crimean Tatars in the city of Bakhchisaray on March 14, 2014.
