Ukrainian politician Gennady Moskal remembered: How Crimea Realities covers his life and legacy

Ukrainian politician Gennady Moskal has died at the age of 73. Ukrainian MPs and politicians reported the death of the politician. Moskal was the head of the Crimean department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, later became the representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and left his post in 2007 in connection with his transfer to work as deputy chairman of the SBU. Gennady Moskal has repeatedly given comments to Crimea.Realities. How Crimeans remember him and what the politician said about Crimea in different years after the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula – read in this material.

Gennady Moskal – Ukrainian politician and lawyer, lieutenant general of police, candidate of legal sciences (2002), associate professor (2005), people’s deputy of Ukraine from the Batkivshchyna party faction.

In Crimea, Gennady Moskal was remembered, among other things, for the fact that, as head of the Crimean Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1997-2000, he fought against banditry on the peninsula.

Ukrainian journalist, author of investigations about Crimean gangs Oleg Eltsov in 2018 in the comments Crimea.Realities remembered how in Crimea, “General Gennady Moskal announced that Bashmaki and Salem had been defeated.”

“He did a lot to destroy the structure of the organized crime group, and he acted with special methods – for example, he squeezed them out,” the journalist said.

Gennady Moskal, archival photo

Working in Crimea as the Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Gennady Moskal tried to resist pro-Russian influence. He stated that Crimea “will never be Transnistria”, and called the Crimean Tatars “the main deterrent” in Crimea for the unfolding of anti-Ukrainian scenarios. The question of the status of Russian as the second state language in Ukraine, on which pro-Russian politicians have made more than one election campaign, Gennady Moskal openly called political, noting that he himself speaks Russian in Crimea, they wrote Crimea.Realities in 2022.

After the Russian seizure of Crimea, in March 2014, Gennady Moskal, as well as 298 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, were banned from entering the territory of Crimea by Russia.

Moskal then called this decision illegal and made an appeal to the head of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation, in which he stated that the ban is a reaction to the vote of people’s deputies for the early termination of the powers of the Supreme Council of Crimea and “settling of personal scores” by Vladimir Konstantinov and Sergei Aksenov. They have not commented publicly on this statement.

Gennady Moskal (right) and Andrey Senchenko, Simferopol, September 10, 2012

In 2016, Gennady Moskal said in an interview with the publication «Politeka»that the flaw of the central Ukrainian government was that the government did not react to Russia’s support for pro-Russian sentiments in Crimea.

I was identified only as a “Bandera member”, because I come from Western Ukraine

“A bunch of pro-Russian parties and public organizations were created in Crimea. When I headed the presidential representative office on the peninsula, there was not a day when they did not gather for a rally. I was identified only as a “Bandera member” because I came from Western Ukraine. Therefore, the rallies were accompanied by the slogans “suitcase, station, to Banderaism,” Moskal said.

He also argued that despite the large number of special services, no one noticed that Sergei Aksenov’s party “has the same pro-Russian program as the party of his father in Moldova, who prepared the Transnistria scenario.”

In 2018 in an interview Crimea.Realities Moskal expressed the opinion that the invasion of Russian troops on the peninsula in 2014 could have been avoided if Kiev had decided to block all Crimean airports and blow up the ferry crossing across the Kerch Strait.

Gennady Moskal in an exclusive interview Crimea.Realities also claimed that the top leadership of Ukraine for many years used the Crimean peninsula only for summer holidays and diplomatic meetings, not noticing the pro-Russian sentiments that Russia supported in Crimea.

When he was chairman of the Transcarpathian State Administration Gennady Moskal V interview Radio Svoboda stated that the key to stability in Transcarpathia, in his opinion, is the multi-ethnic composition of the population and the long history of existence between different states.

He argued that theses about separatist sentiments in the region are a “stuffing” of the Russian special services and that there will be no “second Crimea”.

“No matter what happens here, there will be no second Crimea here. Everything that Russia planned here, it lost everything,” Moskal argued.

Gennady Moskal was 73 years old. Ukrainian edition BBC with reference to the politician’s relatives, he reports that he died after a long illness.

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Annexation of Crimea by Russia

In February 2014, armed people in unmarked uniforms seized the building of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, as well as the Simferopol airport, the Kerch ferry crossing, and other strategic objects, and also blocked the actions of Ukrainian troops. Russian authorities initially refused to acknowledge that these armed men were members of the Russian army. Russian President Vladimir Putin later admitted that it was the Russian military.

On March 16, 2014, a “referendum” on the status of the peninsula, unrecognized by most countries of the world, was held on the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol, as a result of which Russia included Crimea into its composition. Neither Ukraine, nor the European Union, nor the United States recognized the results of the “referendum”. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on March 18 the “annexation” of Crimea to Russia.

International organizations recognized the occupation and annexation of Crimea as illegal and condemned Russia’s actions. Western countries have imposed economic sanctions. Russia denies the annexation of the peninsula and calls it “restoration of historical justice.” The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine officially announced the start date of the temporary occupation of Crimea and Sevastopol by Russia as February 20, 2014.

2024-03-17 16:05:00


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