Tatar

Crimean Tatar

Many of the new names have Crimean Tatar origin or other historic roots, replacing the Soviet era variants.

According to the 2002 Census, 142.6 million people speak Russian, followed by Tatar with 5.3 million and Ukrainian with 1.8 million speakers.

There are 30 Russian theatres, as well as 36 Ukrainian Russian, one Crimean Tatar, one Hungarian, one Jewish and one Romanian theatre.

There were schools where instruction was in Russian (2,937 schools, Hungarian (61), Moldavian (12), Romanian (95), Crimean Tatar (2) and other languages (8 schools).

The first training workshop was designed by the Foundation for Research and Support of Indigenous Peoples of Crimea and served the Tatar peoples of Ukraine.

For instance, five newspapers and two magazines are published in the Crimean Tatar language, and the all Ukrainian newspaper Roden krai is published in Bulgarian.

For example, 10 newspapers were published in Hebrew, four in the Crimean Tatar, three in Polish, seven in Romanian and Moldavian, and one in the Bulgarian language.

The five Board members, all of whom are indigenous people, are Mr. Lars Anders Baer (Saami), Mr. Nadir Bekirov (Crimean Tatar), Mr. Ahmed Mahiou (Amazigh), Mr. José Carlos Morales Morales (Brunca) and Ms. Victoria Tauli Corpuz (Igorot).