Societal Security, Memory and Collective Identity of Crimean Tatars after the Russian Annexation

The study would analyse the situation of the Crimean Tatars after the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014. The Tatars are understood as a distinctive identity-based ethno-national and ethno-religious society in terms of societal security analytical framework. The analysis would focus on the contemporary threats to Crimean Tatar identity under the new pro-Russian authorities in Crimea, within the theoretical framework of societal security, and it would explain the nonviolent nature of Crimean Tatar resistance. The reasons of failure to form pan-Crimean identity in the years prior to Russian annexation of the peninsula, as well as changing citizenship and the role played by Crimean Tatars' collective memory, would be discussed.