Ayder Muzhdabaev | |
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Ayder İzzet oğlu Mujdabayev | |
Born | Tambov, USSR | 8 March 1972
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Other names | Ukrainian: Айдер Іззетович Муждабаєв |
Education | Tambov State University |
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Ayder Muzhdabaev[a] (born 8 March 1972, Tambov, RSFSR) is a Ukrainian Crimean Tatar journalist.[1] He is a regular columnist at Ukrainska Pravda[2] and serves as the deputy director of the ATR television channel.[3] Muzhdabaev is one of the authors of the report Putin. War published after the assassination of Boris Nemtsov[4] and was involved in the Free Russia Forum.[5]
While he was based in Russia, Muzhdabaev served as a correspondent in the politics section of Moskovskij Komsomolets from 1998 to 2015.[6] In 2015 he left his position and moved to Ukraine, due to the Russo-Ukrainian War. Muzhdabaev's support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, which he routinely expressed on the daily talk show that he cohosted, has led to criminal charges against him in Russia.[7]
In 2023, Muzhdabaev criticized Zianon Pazniak, Litvinists, their claims to Lithuania's history and capital Vilnius and concluded that such Litvinists should be deported from Lithuania with wolf's tickets, while describing the Lithuanians as "our friends".[8]
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The following people worked on the content of this report: Ayder Muzhdabayev Russian journalist and media manager. For many years he has studied the civic and political problems of Crimea.
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Occupation authorities deemed expressions of support for Ukrainian sovereignty over the peninsula to be equivalent to undermining Russian territorial integrity. For example, on May 22, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation charged in absentia Crimean Tatar television channel ATR deputy director Ayder Muzhdabaev with violating a Russian law against "public calls for committing terrorist activities." The charges were purportedly due to his support for Ukraine's territorial integrity, which he routinely expressed on the daily talk show that he cohosted.