Government order - Crimean House will be founded in Kyiv

The Cabinet of Minister of Ukraine has approved a decision to found in Kyiv the Crimean House which will become a political, social, informational, cultural, educational and scientific center for the ethnic minorities and indigenous people of Crimea.

A relevant order was enacted at an exit session of the Government in Vinnytsya on Friday, May 16, on the eve of the 70-th anniversary of deportation of Crimean Tatars.

During the session the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk stressed: “Our Crimean Tatar brothers, those who know that the Crimea has been and will be a part of Ukraine, will have their representative office in Ukraine’s capital”.  

The Crimean House is called to become the center of interaction between the country and civil society to counteract challenges when a part of Ukrainian territory is occupied by the foreign state and a threat of future military aggression against Ukraine exists”.

The Crimean House will become a political, social, informational, cultural, educational and scientific center for the ethnic minorities and indigenous people of Crimea, the center joining all areas of their cultural and spiritual life.  

Moreover, this center should become the centre of political opposition to Crimean occupation.

Under the order of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Crimean House will be subordinate to the Culture Ministry.

The Crimean House will be located in 9, Suvorova street, in Kyiv, in a building which will be handed over by the Academy of Agrarian Sciences to the Culture Minister.

The approved document also envisages allocating of funding to the Culture Ministry which will be directed to functioning of the Crimean House and repair of the building and rooms. The Finance Ministry shall make changes to the State Budget of Ukraine for 2014 and envisage for the Culture Ministry the funds necessary to provide functioning of the Crimean House in the process of preparing projects of the State Budget of Ukraine for the following years

As was reported, today, 6 p.m. the National Opera House of Ukraine will hold a requiem dedicated to commemorating the victims of the 70-th anniversary of deportation of Crimean Tatars and other deported people from the Crimean territory. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk is to participate in the event.