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RFE/RL: Russia charges Crimean Tatar official with undermining territorial integrity

Published Jan. 31, 2017. Updated Jan. 31 at 11:56 am

A picture taken on Sept. 11, 2016 in Bakhchysaray shows Crimean Tatar activist Ilmi Umerov speaking during an interview with AFP.

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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has filed extremism charges against a leading Crimean Tatar official in the annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea.

Officials announced on Jan. 30 that Ilma Umerov, deputy chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, the community’s top executive organ, has been charged with “actions aimed at violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.”