The name "Crimea" almost fell under the taboo at the UN. On the eve of the 39th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Russian delegation was asked not to utter this word in its reports. This was reported by the head of the working group on international legal issues of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Crimea under the President of the Russian Federation Alexander Molokhov. He said that he was preparing to tell from the UN platform about discrimination to which the inhabitants of the peninsula are subjected by the United States, the EU and Ukraine. According to the rules, the texts of speeches should be sent to the secretariat of the Council in advance. There they decided that in the presented form, speech could not be heard from the UN rostrum, and made amendments. "It was said that we do not have the right to use the word" Crimea "in our report in general. Only "Autonomous Republic of Crimea" and through the comma - Ukraine ", - said Molokhov RIA" Novosti ". The situation was anecdotal. "To emphasize the absurdity of the situation, we proposed to change the word combination" Crimean Tatars "to" Ukrainian Tatars ", - Molokhov shared.. As a result, the Russian delegation did not know until the last moment whether they would give the floor to the UN.

Rescued by the fact that the secretariat of the Council found "sensible people who realized that this is insanity and idiocy, after which all this mouse scam stopped". As a result, many representatives of the world community present at the meeting were shocked by the news that the inhabitants of the Crimea do not have the right to travel to the United States and the EU countries, since there is a ban on issuing visas to them; that Kiev deprived them of supplies of water and electricity, and the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine are being persecuted.