Musa Djamilev, the former leader of the Crimean Mejlis and one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatars, confirmed today that only 32,4% of people in the Crimea took part in Putin’s referendum on the annexation of the region.
In the meanwhile, the integrists in Spain are using what happened in the Crimea to defeat Catalonia’s hopes for independence. The leader of the ruling party Mariano Rajoy says that the refusal of the international community to recognize the Crimean referendum is a foretaste of what awaits Catalonia if it were to vote to separate from Spain.
Of course, this is a forced parallel, if there ever was one, but I still hope the strategy works and Catalonians forget all this independentist talk.
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