"The 39th President of the United States [...] Jimmy Carter has passed away. In an effort to somewhat mitigate the inevitable clichés that arise in such situations regarding what a "remarkable figure" the deceased was, I would like to point out that in 2014 and in the subsequent years, Jimmy Carter essentially publicly urged acceptance of Russia's occupation of Crimea. He claimed that Moscow had the right to do so," he wrote.
The head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people believes that "our memory cannot be all-forgiving."
"Carter, along with members of the group "The Elders," visited Moscow from April 27 to 29, 2015, and met with [the currently illegitimate president of the Russian Federation Vladimir] Putin. All the interviews he gave after his meeting with Putin and [Foreign Minister Sergey] Lavrov indicate that Jimmy Carter not only believed the assurances of the Russian dictator that "Russia is striving to ensure peace in Ukraine," but also became one of the transmitters of these Kremlin assertions, stating that "in Moscow, we heard nothing but that Russia wants to fulfill the Minsk agreements in full," explained Chubarov.
He emphasized that Carter, while still serving as President, "was well acquainted with the well-known human rights activist, one of the founders of the Ukrainian and Moscow Helsinki groups, an active participant in the Crimean Tatar national movement, Major General Petro Hryhorenko, who, after going to the U.S. for treatment, was stripped of his citizenship and the right to return home by the Soviet regime."
"That is to say, even back then, Jimmy Carter learned about the persecution of Ukrainians by Moscow and the repression against Crimean Tatars, who were desperately fighting for their right to live in their homeland," Chubarov emphasized.