August 7, 2009 - 20:47 AMT
Head of Crimean Armenian Community can be appointed Nationalities and Minorities'Republican Committee Leader
Crimean Russian Community intends to voice their protest for appointment of Crimean Tatar to the position of Nationalities and Minorities' Republican Committee Leader. Crimean Russian Community suggest that the position should be occupied by one of legal national -cultural minority leaders: Head of Crimean Armenian Community Oleg Gabrielyan, Crimean Republican Society Leader, Bulgarian Ivan Abazher or Germans' Republican Society Leader Yuriy Gempel.

According to Crimean Russian Community, both vacancies of Republican Committee Deputy Leaders should be occupied by ethnic Slavs to eradicate "national disbalance in the committee", where 90% of positions are occupied by Crimean Tatars, resulting in Committee's being under full control of Crimean Tatars' illegal ethnic parliament, Analitika.at.ua reported.