Refat Chubarov
Refat Chubarov | |
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2nd Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People | |
Assumed office 28 October 2013[1] | |
Preceded by | Mustafa Dzhemilev |
President of the Worldwide Congress of Crimean Tatars | |
Assumed office 2009 | |
People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
In office 15 May 2015[2] – 29 August 2019 | |
Constituency | Petro Poroshenko Bloc, No. 71 |
In office 1998–2007 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Petro Poroshenko Bloc (2014-2019) | 22 September 1957
Refat Abdurahman oglu Chubarov[a] (born 22 September 1957) is a Crimean politician and public figure, leader of the Crimean Tatar national movement in Ukraine and worldwide.
Biography
Chubarov was born on 22 September 1957 in
In 1983 Chubarov graduated from the Moscow State Historic-Archive Institute. After graduation and until September 1990 he worked at the Central State Archives of the October Revolution and the Socialist Construction of Latvian SSR in Riga. From 1989 to 1991, Chubarov was a regional representative at the Riga city council, as a member of the Popular Front of Latvia faction, which favoured Latvian independence from the Soviet Union.[2]
Since November 2013, he has served as the chairman of the
In June 2014, Chubarov vowed to boycott the September 2014 Crimean parliamentary election.[9]
From 15 May 2015, Chubarov was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) as a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[2] He was placed #71 on this party's election list during the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[2]
In November 2015, Russia unsuccessfully tried to place Chubarov on the Interpol search list, after a Ukrainian query not to admit this request.[10] Russia accused Chubarov of calling for secession of Crimea from Russia.[10]
The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People was labeled an "extremist organisation" and subsequently banned by Crimea's supreme court on 26 April 2016.[11]
Chubarov again took part in the July
Notes
- ^ Crimean Tatar: Refat Abdurahman oğlu Çubarov; Crimean Tatar Cyrillic: Рефат Абдурахман огълу Чубаров
Ukrainian: Рефат Абдурахманович Чубаров, romanized: Refat Abdurakhmanovych Chubarov
References
- ^ "Кримські татари обрали нового голову Меджлісу" [Crimean Tatars elected new Chairman of Mejlis]. Holos Ukrayiny. 28 October 2013. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
- ^ a b c d (in Ukrainian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Short biography, LIGA
- ^ a b "Leader of Strength and Honor party Smeshko names first ten leaders on list of candidates in parliamentary election".
- ^ a b "Пішов з життя батько Чубарова" [Chubarov's father have died]. Ukrinform. 30 March 2014. Archived from the original on 3 April 2014.
- ^ a b Died father of Chubarov. Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People. 2014-03-30
- ^ "Biography of Refat Chubarov" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 3 March 2014.
- ^ "Crimeans Vote to Leave Ukraine, Join Russia". AP. ABC News. 16 March 2014. p. 2. Archived from the original on 17 March 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ^ "Putin signs treaty to add Crimea to map of Russia". The Concord Monitor. 19 March 2014. Archived from the original on 20 March 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ^ "Crimean Tatars: Mejlis To Boycott Parliamentary Elections". UNPO. 13 June 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ^ Interfax Ukraine(2015-11-11)
- Thestar.com.my(26 April 2016)
- ^ CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)