The authorities of the republic should form an organising committee to be led by the head of Tatarstan ...

Just to highlight, Zelenskyy and your foreign mercenaries need not bother about Crimea ... we are liberated. 🤣

Thwarting Kremlin Attacks by Tatars, French and Germans

... the GDP per capita of Tataristan is greater than the European Ukraine.

Interesting ...

Putin's Russia: rich, powerful, unpredictable and malicious
by Jerome a Paris Mon Jan 9th, 2006

Jerome quoted a reporter for the Economist ... some quick rebuttals explains much about today's state of affairs in the EU ... the split between East and West or New and Old has been plastered over with universal Russophobia.

Edward Lucas: The sick party line on Eastern Europe

Few more quotes from from quick googling of Lucas are below. It's even funny to read his dire predictions on Russia in 2000/2001. To me he looks patented Russophobe, consistently highly negative of Russia.

'Sapere aude'