Russia has clearly replaced professional competence with other requirements in occupied Crimea. A court is, in all seriousness, trying Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov for supposed ‘separatism’, based on a faulty translation of an interview given in Crimean Tatar. While the translator is himself a German specialist, the nature of at least one of the mistakes suggests that Umerov’s words were deliberately distorted to enable charges under Article 280.1, the 2014 addition to Russia’s criminal code increasingly used against critics of Russia’s occupation of Crimea.

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