Refat Chubarov

Refat Chubarov - Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People since October 2013, MP of the Verkhovna Rada since May 2015. He urged Crimean residents to boycott the referendum on joining the Russian Federation. On 5 July 2014, he was banned from entering Crimea. On 29 May 2015, it became known that the Investigation Department of the FSB Directorate for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol opened a criminal case against Chubarov under Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code (public calls for actions aimed at violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation). On 28 October, a decision on arrest in absentia was made.

According to the investigation, in April 2015, Refat Chubarov in an interview with Ukrainian media called for the violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, namely "the exclusion of the Republic of Crimea from the Russian Federation and its annexation to the territory of Ukraine".

Later it became known that Chubarov was also accused of organising mass riots in connection with the clashes in Simferopol on 26 February 2014.

On 1 June 2021, he was sentenced in absentia to six years in a general regime colony. On the episodes on calls to violate the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, he was sentenced to 200 hours of compulsory labour, a ban on holding administrative positions for a year and a fine of 200 thousand rubles, but was released from punishment due to partial decriminalisation of the relevant article of the Criminal Code.