Refat Abdurahman oglu Chubarov (born 22 September 1957) is a Crimean politician and public figure, leader of the Crimean Tatar national movement in Ukraine and worldwide.
Biography
Chubarov was born on 22 September 1957 in
Samarkand
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Uzbek SSR
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in the family of Crimean Tatar Abduraman Seitasan oglu Chubarov (1931–2014), who was deported in 1944 by the Soviet authorities from his native village of Ay Serez (today Mizhrichchia,
Sudak Municipality
Sudak City Municipality (, , ), officially "the territory governed by the Sudak city council" is one of the 25 regions of the Crimea, Crimean peninsula, currently subject to a territorial dispute between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Populat ...
Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People
The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People () is the single highest executive-representative body of the Crimean Tatars in period between sessions of the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People. The Mejlis is a member institution of the Platform of E ...
. 2014-03-30 In 1968, the Chubarov family was allowed to return, but not to the southern coast of Crimea, so the family settled in Pryvilne ( Krasnoperekopsk Raion).
In 1983 Chubarov graduated from the Moscow State Historic-Archive Institute. After graduation and until September 1990 he worked at the Central State Archives of the October Revolution and the Socialist Construction of Latvian SSR in
Riga
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. From 1989 to 1991, Chubarov was a regional representative at the Riga city council, as a member of the Popular Front of Latvia faction, which favoured Latvian independence from the Soviet Union./(website has automatic
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Since November 2013, he has served as the chairman of the
Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People
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People's Deputy of Ukraine
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from 1998 to 2007. He has also served as the President of the Worldwide Congress of Crimean Tatars since 2009. In 2014, he called the Crimean status referendum "a circus" and also said that it was "a tragedy, an illegitimate government with armed forces from another country". In the aftermath of the referendum Russia annexed Crimea on 18 March 2014.
In June 2014, Chubarov vowed to boycott the September 2014 Crimean parliamentary election.
From 15 May 2015, Chubarov was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) as a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc. He was placed #71 on this party's election list during the
2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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In November 2015, Russia unsuccessfully tried to place Chubarov on the
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The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People was labeled an "extremist organisation" and subsequently banned by Crimea's supreme court on 26 April 2016.Crimean court bans Tatar ruling body in blow to minority Thestar.com.my (26 April 2016)
Chubarov again took part in the July
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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