Tatars Demand Return of Crimea in Ukraine-Russia Talks

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Crimean Tatar community leaders on Tuesday demanded that returning the peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, should be a condition imposed
of autonomous Crimea and Sevastopol, should be an obligatory condition for official negotiations between Ukrainian representatives and the
on Tuesday initially gave cause for optimism, but the Kremlin dashed those hopes by saying Wednesday it saw nothing "promising or any
breakthrough."Ukraine's chief negotiator David Arakhamia has said his country was demanding an international agreement guaranteeing its
accounted for 12-15 percent of the two million Crimea residents, had largely boycotted the 2014 referendum organized by Moscow after it
community
annexation.