Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, reacted strongly to criticism from State Duma deputy General Vladimir Shamanov of the initiative to rename the villages of Naurskaya and Shelkovskaya (now Nevre and Terek). He called Shamanov's claims of "erasing history" "lies and an insult to the people who live on this land."
79 years have passed since the beginning of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars

On May 18, 1944, a criminal operation began in the USSR to forcibly deport Crimean Tatars from their historical homeland to Central Asia. In the first years of deportation, from 20% to 46% of the settlers died from hunger and disease.
According to the National Movement of Crimean Tatars, about 200 thousand people were deported from Crimea, of which more than 86% were women and children. Most of the Crimean Tatars were sent to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. In the first years of deportation, this people lost 46.2% of the total.
In 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recognized the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people as genocide.
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