Article 6

1.The Parties shall encourage a spirit of tolerance and intercultural dialogue and take effective measures to promote mutual respect and understanding and co-operation among all persons living on their territory, irrespective of those persons' ethnic, cultural, linguistic or religious identity, in particular in the fields of education, culture and the media.
2.The Parties undertake to take appropriate measures to protect persons who may be subject to threats or acts of discrimination, hostility or violence as a result of their ethnic, cultural, linguistic or religious identity.

153. Cultural traditions, customs and achievements of Crimean Tatars are not included in any form in a program of general education in Crimea and Ukraine. They are taught at public educational institutions neither for Crimean Tatars themselves, nor for the rest of habitants of the Crimea. The Crimean Tatar culture was forced out on periphery of a social-cultural activity. Damage was brought to Crimean Tatar culture, which is not refunded and compensated by any form.
154. At the same time there are a lot of films, books and exhibitions in Ukraine, which reproduce the Crimean Tatars at the image of the permanent enemy of the Ukrainians and Ukraine. Government does nothing to prevent the anti-Crimean Tatars propaganda and rumors distributed trough mass media, publications, tourist excursions etc. The films presenting the Crimean Tatars as a main historical enemy of Ukraine are translated periodically by the State TV.


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