Refat Chubarov

Refat Chubarov
Chubarov in 2021
2nd Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People
Incumbent
Assumed office
28 October 2013[1]
Preceded byMustafa Dzhemilev
President of the Worldwide Congress of Crimean Tatars
Incumbent
Assumed office
2009
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
15 May 2015[2] – 29 August 2019
ConstituencyPetro Poroshenko Bloc, No. 71
In office
1998–2007
Personal details
Born (1957-09-22) 22 September 1957 (age 67)
Samarkand, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan)
Political partyStrength and Honor (since 2019)[3]
Petro Poroshenko Bloc (2014–2019)

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

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Chubarov was born on 22 September 1957 in Samarkand, Uzbek SSR in the family of Crimean Tatar Abduraman Seitasan oglu Chubarov (1931–2014), who was deported in 1944 by the Soviet authorities from his native village of Ay Serez (today Mizhrichia, Sudak Municipality).[4][5] In 1968, the Chubarov family was allowed to return, but not to the southern coast of Crimea, so the family settled in Pryvilne (Krasnoperekopsk Raion).[4][5]

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 Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People. He served as Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea from 1995 to 1998 and as People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1998 to 2007. He has also served as the President of the Worldwide Congress of Crimean Tatars since 2009.[6] In 2014, he called the Crimean status referendum "a circus" and also said that it was "a tragedy, an illegitimate government with armed forces from another country".[7] In the aftermath of the referendum Russia annexed Crimea on 18 March 2014.[8]

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 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, this time for the party Strength and Honor.[3] But in the election, the party won 3.82%, not enough to clear the 5% election threshold and thus got no parliamentary seats.[12]

Notes

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  1. ^ Crimean Tatar: Refat Abdurahman oğlu Çubarov; Cyrillic: Рефат Абдурахман огълу Чубаров
    Ukrainian: Рефат Абдурахманович Чубаров, romanized: Refat Abdurakhmanovych Chubarov

References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ a b c d (in Ukrainian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Short biography, LIGA
  3. ^ a b "Leader of Strength and Honor party Smeshko names first ten leaders on list of candidates in parliamentary election".
  4. ^ a b "Пішов з життя батько Чубарова" [Chubarov's father have died]. Ukrinform. 30 March 2014. Archived from the original on 3 April 2014.
  5. ^ a b Died father of Chubarov. Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People. 2014-03-30
  6. ^ "Biography of Refat Chubarov" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 3 March 2014.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "Crimean Tatars: Mejlis To Boycott Parliamentary Elections". UNPO. 13 June 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  10. ^ a b MP Chubarov no longer wanted by Interpol – Avakov, Interfax Ukraine (2015-11-11)
  11. ^ Crimean court bans Tatar ruling body in blow to minority, Thestar.com.my (26 April 2016)
  12. ^ CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
Political offices
Preceded by Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People
2013– 		Incumbent
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