A Man for All Seasons – Zelensky’s Choice as Minister of Defense, Rustem Umerov
by Steve Brown
Forty-one-year-old Rustem Enverovych Umerov, a Crimean #Tatar, was born in Samarkand, Soviet Uzbekistan, where his family had been exiled along with 200,000 Tatars under Stalin. They moved back to #Crimea when he was a child in the 1980s.
A successful businessman, he became actively involved in Crimean politics ...
Read more here https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/21238
Suggestion of where this might be going, I guess…