Dear ladies and gentlemen! The Crimea as well as the whole Ukraine is passing through responsible period of its development. However there is difficult ethnopolitical situation in the Crimea, one of the regions of Ukraine now. The most part of Crimean people are ethnical Russians (65%) who feel attraction to Russia. There are 25% the Ukrainians in the Crimea and they insist more close integration of the Crimea with other regions of Ukraine. There are only 10% the Crimean Tatars here. But their amount is increasing because they are returning from Central Asia and Siberia where they were expeled by Stalin communist regime in 1944. The Crimean Tatars demand the rehabilitation of their political and social rights. But these demands find no absolute comprehension on the part of Ukrainian authorities and are stumbled on the counteraction of the Russians. Interethnical collisions are smouldering, periodically acuminating in the Crimea and the problems of Crimean Russian separatism also arise here.
The Crimean mass media play an important role in setting the mutual under standing between the ethnical groups in the Crimea. But generally it is negative role because the most of the Crimean journalists work according the old Soviet principles and elucidate the interethnical processes in the Crimea not objectively. One part of these journalists is dependent on the their publishers and brings out their political will and another part of them (journalists) has no experience of elucidating ethno- political problems in polycultural society.
The Crimean Independent Center of Political Researchers and Journalists is looking for partners in order to organize short- term (from 2 to 4 weeks) internships for the small groups of the Crimean journalists (from 5 to 15 persons), who represent the Russians, Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian groups of population in the Crimea, in the Universities or mass media of USA. The aim of such internship is to rise the qualification of the Crimean journalists and to receive foreign experience in elucidating interethnical contacts in polycultural society by press.
The CICPRJ works side by side with the Crimean Association of Free Journalists in the realization of this project.
If you are interested in cooperation with the CICPRJ we will be very pleased to reply to your letters.
Yours respectfully,
Volodymyr Pritula, director of the CICPRJ.
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