Crimean Tatars in the Conditions of Integration into Ukrainian Humanitarian Space: Educational Aspect

Abstract

The research is focused on highlighting the situation of the Crimean Tatars in Crimea, analyzing the state policy of Ukraine in the field of satisfying cultural and educational needs of the Crimean Tatars after 1991, which will make it possible to identify errors and miscalculations when implementing ethnopolitics of independent Ukraine in Crimea and prevent similar ones in the future.Relevance of the researched issues is due to the fact, that the ethnopolitical conflict in Crimea and east of Ukraine attested that maintaining ethnopolitical stability is the most important task of the ethnonational policy of the state, a guarantee of the territorial integrity and inviolability. At the same time, legislation and actions of state authorities did not fully ensure ethnopolitical stability, which caused ethnopolitical destabilization with all its components (using one's own national minority to annex the territories of the country of its residence, illegal referendums, undeclared hybrid war).Foundations of views and ideologies, stereotypes and prejudices of the young generation who will later decide the fate of the country are laid through education. Therefore, considering the problems of preservation and development of the Crimean Tatar language in the socio-cultural space of Crimea, we focused on the miscalculations in the humanitarian policy of Ukraine towards the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.After 2014 a number of legislative documents aimed at protecting the rights of the Crimean Tatar people as an indigenous people of Ukraine were adopted in Ukraine. The activities of Crimean Tatar public organizations concerning the national and cultural revival of the ethnic group were also intensified. However, despite public initiatives and projects, it is necessary to develop and implement an effective state program for the protection and development of the Crimean Tatar language in the conditions of modern challenges. One of the key points of this program should be the development of a network of classes with the Crimean Tatar language as a language of education, the opening and support of Sunday schools, publication of textbooks and additional literature in the Crimean Tatar language, and the financial support of public cultural and educational initiatives. It is important to develop and support projects that would represent Crimean Tatar culture in Ukraine and the whole world.