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and culture will vanish i think they'll survive business but it can and measure but smaller ethnic groups could end up losing their identity of these new regulations aren't scrapped using your will now there will be a catastrophe. at the with. the school principal part of an ethnic russian concurs he's convinced the country's many different cultures and languages are treasure worth protecting which is why he's refusing to heed moscow's decree to stop teaching the tart our language. gives you shouldn't label people as either clever russians or stupid tatars or vice versa that just crosses nationalist conflict which some people are keen to provoke that it could end badly someday. but the invest. who fall in losses by teaching her students the touch our language. is helping them discover
we are doing our best to stay on track and take responsibility for the delay and reconstruction of what we continue to work every day in our region we have a lot of people who are more than one hundred years old and we hope the senora reaches that age as well and can go back home but the historic center will inevitably take the longest to rebuild inevitably meant that to go back in cameroon now. goes to the tatars often as possible everyone here has lost their home they have all hope that city will be rebuilt in the coming years but out of their fears it might be too late for half. my strength in starting to come to an end. now that prays that had children and grandchildren will be able to return to their
different cultures and languages are treasure worth protecting which is why he's refusing to heed moscow's decree to stop teaching the touch our language. you shouldn't label people as either clever russians or stupid tatars or vice versa that just crosses nationalist conflict which some people are keen to provoke that could end badly someday. but that the in bed. will fall in losses and by teaching her students the touch our language les sung is helping them discover their touch our density. and her pupils want to keep the touch our language as a school subject for practical reasons to. me it's really helpful to know the tartar language when you live here many shopkeepers only speak. good at that. just knowing the language of your ancestors helps you better understand the culture
serious response than the ones we've seen with the military takeovers of the crimean bases we're seeing right now. >> no matter what happens in the world someone starts questioning whether islamist fighters will end up somewhere. now questions whether islamist fighters will end up in crimea? >> crimea is home to more than a quarter million muslims known as tatars. they have historically they say been persecuted by the russians. they're afraid that history may repeat itself. now a term on twitter is trending, nefir on ukraine, that's an islamic term that they might travel there from chech a chechnya. and if they get to crimea, they get into ukraine. look at that big bothered ukraine shares with poland. if they get through there, shep, this is the big fear, they're in western europe, no borders, a
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presence. this vote, 97% almost was a huge achievement for the government here. it's, of course, very much a soviet-style statistic. and only three points shy of what kim appealed in north korea. i think the vote is overwhelming but there's a significant minority here, tatars, who did boycott the vote. russian foreign ministry is calling for the creation of an international suspect group to mediate the crisis in ukraine, including the adoption of of a new constitution. nbc's jim massceda is in moscow. is this just the tip of the iceberg? >> reporter: yes, there's a sense this is just the tip of the iceberg amongst some russian population. there's a reliable poll that came out today suggesting that
their lives especially economically. there are the tatars, ethnic ukrainians and many russians who much prefer the situation with ukraine. but if you talk to certainly the pro-russian government but also a lot of people on the streets, it does feel slightly as though this is already a foregone conclusion and that the writing is on the wall on sunday the referendum will go russia's way, wolf. >> diana magnay reporting for us from crimea. thanks very, very much. and happening now, breaking news in the mystery of flight 370, after a week of searching, new fuel for the theory that the missing jet crashed in the ocean. stand by. we have new details of a classified analysis by u.s. and malaysian investigators. we're also learning about potentially dangerous cargo inside the jet. did it play a role in this disaster? and messages of hope for the 239 missing passengers and crew
i know there are russian troops and forces everywhere. russian troops that amassed again last night on the border. real concerns that this is all taking place with tremendous intimidation. especially the tatars and other minority groups have been intimidated and threatened regarding this upcoming vote. >> reporter: most people we've spoken to do not feel it will be a free and open election. there was a small demonstration today to boycott the referendum. but the people who are holding it decided not to hold it in the center of town. instead they went to the edge of simferopol, the capital of crimea where i am right now, because they were concerned they would be attacked and beaten up by the pro-russian militia men in control of this city and in control of the roads leading in and out of crimea, in control of the trains that come on and off the peninsula. there is a deep concern that it
government in kiev. and how is this going to go? >> when they become part of russia and they've thought they are ukrainians. >> what i worry about is provocations. you could have some muslim tatars do some kind of attack or have an attack that's blamed on this community then you have a pretext for russia to advance further to take further steps. you could see russian orthodox churches, for example, being attacked in the east because they're so split in that same blue/green map, there is the ukrainian orthodox and russian orthodox church. they don't always see eye to eye. you can see if a couple russian orthodox churches start burning down, that's another provocation to go in. there's a lot of things that could go wrong. if there's bloodshed, the russians might say, you know what, we need to go further, we have no choice. we've annexed the most important bit which is the crimea, but we need to go further in order to protect the russians. >> that's a whole new question. >> then we have a real incident. >> nbc chief foreign correspondent and chief map maker, richard engel. thank you for being here. >> vanuatu. >> vanuatu.
are more diverse than we're showing in a two-color map. there are ukrainian speaking populations inside crimea and eastern ukraine. there's the tatars population. >> let's pull up the map of crimea. you're right, there's not a black or white narrative or in this case yellow and green narrative. that was a political map. that showed their leanings. are they voting toward russia? many of these people are also ethnic russians and russian speakers. but there are these other divisions. crimea has one. there are these other divisions. crimea in particular has one. crimea has about 2 million people. about 30% of the population are muslim tatars and sympathetic toward the new revolutionary