Beauty pageant dreams in politically fraught Crimea | Unreported World

Miss Crimea: In 2015 Unreported World went to the disputed Russian region of Crimea for a beauty pageant just a year after Russian forces seized it from Ukraine. At the time, the move was condemned as an illegal annexation by the international community but was welcomed as a historic homecoming by Crimea's sizeable Russian majority. But before it was either Russian or Ukrainian, Crimea belonged to the Crimean Tatars, a Muslim minority, many of whom opposed the annexation.
Marcel Theroux went to meet one young Crimean Tatar who was hoping to become Miss Crimea 2015. This episode first aired on 22/05/2015.
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[@svetlanaz7872]

"i asked them to show me their dancing"...15 children with rifles enter room ;)

[@MsSilentsiren]

Thought we were in America for a second, LOL.

[@ixctu350]

@Milan wtf is that supposed to mean?

[@tjd2286]

It's the only NRA sanctioned way of safe dancing in schools

[@Riververchi]

I bow to Marcel. Russian is a pure hell to learn. His language skills is astounding!

[@mty1]

are you russian?

[@KL-np5un]

@@mty1 maybe someone who learned the language

[@karenrobertson3379]

I'd love to know how many languages Marcel can speak.

[@dfed7673]

I know he can speak Russian and English, so far that's two, maybe we'll see more in upcoming docs ; )

[@nathanholmes-king3827]

@@dfed7673 He can also speak Ukrainian.

[@kingraghavsahni]

He came always speak Hindi

[@sof4804]

ok...but they're using an extremely patriotic ukrainian pop song as the background music in the contest which, if not willfully ignorant, is extremely ironic

[@noellefritz5678]

I mean it's probably definitely on purpose, it'd be weird if it was a different song

[@microsoftpainenthusiast8096]

Wow, this documentary and Marcel continue to surprise me with the topics. It‘s really interesting and profesionally done.

[@poponachtschnecke]

"Wherever we are, we'll feel sad" :'(

[@shilohschwartz8671]

Dang. A lot of real shit is happening in other places, while we in America are squabbling over meaningless nonsense.

[@linzalabamaawake5230]

God bless this humans. I feel like a brat. Thank you for making this documentary. I needed this

[@melissaumuhire7804]

She lowkey looks like Kylie Jenner

[@brannenthompson9662]

The Reporter really sounds like Louis Theroux.

[@LS-fe4ob]

Brannen Thompson they are brothers :)

[@summayyasaleesu5618]

Love the way the journalist says tatars

[@redbutterfly88]

Never heard of miss crimea ever in any international beauty pageants, after winning miss crimea whats their next? Or maybe miss russia? Lol

[@poponachtschnecke]

Naslie is so beautiful!

[@ryanm4769]

I get the "say you love Russia or disappear" vibe from all of them

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

One hundred percent

[@JackGillies]

Name of the song at the start

[@viktoriya7442]

"Trying to find justice in Russia"!?Hahahahah what a joke

[@ludivinewittenberg3878]

Trying to find justice in USA is what???

[@maryk8935]

I'd rather say: Trying to find justice anywhere in the world...

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

@@ludivinewittenberg3878 whattaboutism also the Russian courts are corrupt

[@nikolavukicevic9799]

@@gorbachevspizzahut2809 So are American and Western European courts

[@cherrycherrylady1700]

Nazlee 💜💜💜💜

[@hamzakhan9597]

Crimea is synonymous with Tatars

[@billyturner3196]

This reporter seems curious and empathetic I like him best

[@malikathueler2529]

Nazli (I hope it's the right spelling) clearly was the most beautiful to me!

[@Asdfghjkl-us5jr]

She is like a naturally beautiful Kylie Jenner :)

[@svetlanaz7872]

not trying to be rude but, having lived there (ukraine) for 25 years, shes at most a 6-7 (with makeup)...beautiful hair though. however, the quality of life and diet of most of the women make them age rather poorly.

[@fleurdazalee7466]

Yes it's nazli نظلي. In Arabic🙆

[@xz4409]

fleur d'azalée shes turkish i think because of ottoman times

[@xz4409]

Malika Thueler tatar turk beauty

[@jaydapiosen7274]

There's an umbrella as a prize y'all.

[@CopenhagenWintergreenn]

Stalin has absolutely no comparison to modern day Russia or current president Putin.

[@eosprodromos3803]

Copenhagen Wintergreen expulsion and genocide of minority areas and settlement by Russians in the USSR was done mainly for the strategic reasons. Now it's due to nationalism

[@Black.Spades]

Yeah, and how about the murder of millions of Christian Russians/White-Russians/Ukrainians because of their religion?

[@manishmurudkar]

What annexation? There was a referendum in which 97% of citizens wanted to join Russia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum

[@microsoftpainenthusiast8096]

uhm, yep, 147%

[@microsoftpainenthusiast8096]

That referendum was an illegal action done by rUsSiAns

[@dave9308]

@@microsoftpainenthusiast8096 Keep dreaming

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

That vote was proven to be fake silly

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

Illegitimate and illegal vote with no third option held under gun fire

[@cBearTV-]

What was that infamous sentence?... "I have no other territorial demands"... Just remember this isn't the only boarder where the former USSR have forcibly taken or attempted to take land. ❗... The problem with bullies is that, the more you give the more they take ❗

[@sufyanali2455]

Crimean ppl are Russian they always had that land and gave it to Ukraine after fall of the union don’t be a hater. USA has Guam Hawaii Puerto Rico all 2nd class citizens are they not bullies as well ?

[@dave9308]

Guess bullies like the USA need to be broken down then

[@nathanholmes-king3827]

At the end, Marcel said that Nazli left for Ukraine three weeks later. What I realized is that she probably didn't complete the driving instruction, as she was still in the "parking lot" phase of practice. In my opinion, it would take a lot more than three weeks to move from the parking lot to passing the class, especially with a manual transmission car. Also, the fact that they let the camera operator film in the passenger seat, while the instructor stood outside the car, is really dangerous, especially at this stage of learning how to drive.

[@Saraseeksthompson0211]

This is horrific and people should be helping people fight for their rights not standing by. What’s wrong with the US/Canada/Britain? Where are they now? I hope that family is safe saying they are not happy. This is so sad. Why couldn’t they go to the Ukraine to be with him? It’s so sad. It’s interesting to see Muslims around the world.

[@MadlyMandy]

Maz Lee (sp?) is so beautiful! She should've won

[@mahshidz8271]

It's Nazli

[@Qumeric]

Some parts are a bit silly. Dissident ancestor is not a problem in modern Russia at all. Some parts of Soviet Union remain or even return, but this is not one of them.

[@Harmony-wj8ji]

Pardon me for my ignorance, but can't Crimea become its own country?

[@masonmason6260]

Can't Northern Ireland become its own country?

[@Harmony-wj8ji]

@@masonmason6260 Huh you have a point

[@nikolavukicevic9799]

@@Harmony-wj8ji He does have a point. Can Scotland and Wales have their own state to be independent from British occupation and oppression. Can Native Americans have their own state for being indigenous and not to be oppressed by the white man.

[@PHlophe]

Nazlee looks like pretty Iranian lass. She'd be Nazaneen

[@iloveart20101]

Lechiffresix six shes prettier then any irani lass, because she doesn’t have plastic surgery like 99.9% of women in iran 🤣🤣

[@flowerchild7250]

iloveart20101 😂😂😂

[@dave9308]

"Centuries of distrust" at 3:54... yeah, last I checked, Crimean tatars went slave raiding into Russia for centuries, so if there's distrust, it's definitely the Crimean Tatars' fault.

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

Go study some history about oppression under tsars and ussr

[@dave9308]

@@gorbachevspizzahut2809 Go study about slave raids into Russia, troll.

[@ameliataylor4857]

i know we can compare the two countries and we know that being annexed is bad for these people politically, but it betters the life they had. it’s simple for them, and they feel russian. we need to remember that

[@Hvuntokrul]

3 years later, almost 2 years into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by russia, this is an interesting comment to read, given it's written who doesn't apparently know much about Ukraine and Crimea:)

[@odacirreis7193]

Ridiculous

[@a.khan22]

The man with Ukrainian flag at 9:45 😍😍🤤

[@animaxelement4388]

u people are clueless

[@masonmason6260]

*reunification

[@jael3177]

ya no shit they seem proud, crimea is majority ethnic russians.

[@animaxelement4388]

Lol, your description is wrong, how can cr imea belong to them when they came in late 1500s? you nu ts?

[@Chris66Mas]

..and just over 20 years ago, Crimea was part of the USSR, so was Ukraine.

[@shroomyesc]

Not to nitpick but isn't it more like just under 30 years ago? The USSR dissolved now nearly 27 years ago

[@anamariapopa9431]

they didn't avoid shit, many died already.

[@masonwill3995]

thank you for doing this, you Russian is better and better, do you know that Crimea is one of the biggest human traffickings transfer station in this world?

[@MrNick4548]

Why it seams so fake and made on purpose for the cameras ?

[@KL-np5un]

Seems less fake than the porn you watch alone in your dark room

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

@@KL-np5un weirdo

[@ryanm4769]

7:57 fakest cry I've ever seen lol

[@tsya]

1944

[@solinvictus2811]

Could you imagine a country taking over your area and immediately doubling your wages? Under Ukraine, Crimea was dilapidated and neglected. It became one of the poorest areas of the country. Under Russia, Crimeans now earn higher wages than almost everywhere in Ukraine.

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

Source?

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

All my sources say you are wrong Al-Jazeera for example says that under Russia the social services have taken a giant blow.

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

Yeah this comment is so stupidly incorrect. It doesn't matter if wages are high if Crimea now gets no tourists and prices have skyrocketed. I'm pretty sure REAL wages have stagnated or dropped given that

[@Hvuntokrul]

this is funny to read, we need more jokes like this one:)

[@johnsnowkumar359]

This reporter speaking on video may be up to no good. The people of Crimea voted to be part of Russia, as we know. I am originally from Batesville somewhere in the deep south. Today I am away. In 1783, Queen Catherine the great decided to liberate some Turkish ruled kingdoms that were ruled for a number of centuries by the Ottomaan empire. Few American lawmakers or reporters with no knowledge of the old world seem to oppose Russians for no reason. The modern day American people / lawmaker is naive, and think just like the native American dead leaders, such as Pocahoncho and Sitting Bull and Pontiac. . Few American lawmakers are upset with Queen Catherine the great as she created a country called Ukraine in 1783 in the villages surrounding Kiev, while putting predominantly Russian speaking Crimea into Russia in 1783. I think she did the right thing by putting Crimea in Russia. A couple of lawmakers in the western hemisphere may try stunts such as by complaining to native American ex - leader Pontiac about Queen Catherine's correct decision to put predominantly Russian speaking tiny Crimea in Russia in 1783. A country in the midst of a civil war cannot join NATO, as per NATO regulations, even if the stakes are worth one trillion dollars in lobbyist fees. A drunk Khrushchev wrote an office memo in 1954 late one night after closing his office, while all alone, with perhaps one bodyguard saying, "Crimea is no longer part of Ukraine", just before he passed out, supposedly. The same night at the office, that guard supposedly asked the drunk Khrushchev not to put up the office memo with his hand written note, "Crimea is no longer part of Ukraine" for approval by the house and Senate of the Soviet Union. The House and Senate on the Hill in the former Soviet Union are supposedly called Politburo Members, or Soviet lawmakers. The previous consecutive office memo for that day also had Khrushchev's hand written note on office attendance, " From next month in 1954, if any office employee of the office of the Secretary General of the Soviet Union comes to office very late, and later than 20 minutes, he or she (meaning, that same office employee) will lose his pay for the whole day ..." , supposedly, regardless of whether there is a snow storm in town. Nikita Khrushchev filed his next office memo on ownership of tiny Crimea on top of that file of important office memos in his office chamber that night, next to an office memo on late attendance. How legal is that memo-document depends of whether you ask an ethnic Russian in America or an ethnic Ukrainian in America. I heard that resistance fighters of Ukraine during Ottomaan rule were predominantly Cossacks (ethnic Russians) , and they were tortured the most, during Ottomaan rule and killed more often during the short-lived Nazi rule.

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

That thing about Crimea willingly voting to join Russia is a complete lie. That vote was wrong and faked. Also annexing Crimea was completely illegal.

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

Why are you talking about the 1700s you absolute buffoon. You've gone on a stupid meaningless rant after spreading lies that the vote was legitimate when it was not

[@kpzcbttp]

I find that activists always put their family at risk no matter what.

[@lamsrojo]

kpzcbttp so is it better to be a follower so that u blend in and participate in the downfall of one's country or be an activist and stand up and participate for what's right and defend your rights so that you and your childrento have a better future and country to live in. Either one for me would be frightening to participate in....like the old saying says If u can't beat, join them.

[@nativelatinosfucktrump3055]

the Americas baby

[@chisanainoris5364]

Crimea was gifted to Ukraine but never officially.

[@ludivinewittenberg3878]

TRUE. Those brainwash with the USA cool aid don't know that, they can't do research because they are to lazy and fat with unhealthy food and fed with tv propaganda and trash show to keep them asleep while their government are feeding of their blood in silence day and night.

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

It was officially recognized.

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

@@ludivinewittenberg3878 dumb comment

[@Hvuntokrul]

nice try comrade bot

[@ljmcdonald2703]

🇷🇺

[@vikramnandakumaran2434]

at 8.40...you see a statue of ukrainian national hero (poet) still intact in crimea ....but in 2014 after kyiv coup the ukrainian nationalists decimated lenin's statue and stood on it ....this shows who is good and bad...russians recognise ukraninan language too in crimea but in ukraine they dont

[@meetup9408]

This west journalists experts to make fake information 😂

[@papapeethehunks]

Crimea should be left on its own country like Cyprus.

[@masonmason6260]

90% of Crimea voted to join Russia This documentary is 23 minutes long 3 minutes dedicated to the 90% who wanted to join Russia 20 minutes to the 10% who wanted to remain a part of Ukraine lol

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

Actually that vote was false. Fake news.

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

Lies

[@masonmason6260]

@@gorbachevspizzahut2809 it's fake because you don't like the results?

[@TDArocks2]

Awful. Russian propaganda.

[@revealsins2me]

were is the report from east Ukraine no you go to Crimea instead coward reporting.

[@PamelasLas]

Those are Ukrainians, not Russians. Kids are victims or politics

[@EternallyGod]

Why are you putting this out again like it is new? That is poor ettiquette for a channel to do this sort of thing.

[@Kermitpan]

Well they did write it in the description; it's not like they are advertizing it as something extremely new.

[@JJsims5504]

It says in the description that it came out in 2015. This channel uploads a lot of old documentaries. It always says the date it was originally released in the comments.

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

It's dated in the description dummy

[@janaoh5785]

99% of Crimeans voted to rejoin Russia but good 'ol western media manages to focus on the 1% who didn't.

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

Wrong. That vote was proven to be faked

[@noellefritz5678]

literally this is all about people proud to join Russia

[@Hvuntokrul]

believing the results of a vote held at gunpoint? very nice

[@symbolsandsystems]

I don't get why Russian/Kazarian Tartars would prefer Ukraine to Russia......

[@ludivinewittenberg3878]

It's because they have been promise $$$. I don't get what happiness they will get under Ukrop wannabe nazi, only extinction. If the Russians was so bad they will have been extinct, dead with few left with no voices, after all those centuries under Russian rule. Those tartars in Crimea are ungretful people thats all. That girl that left for Ukraine they should do a follow up on her, I'm sure she's either dead over there or got back to Crimea.

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

@@ludivinewittenberg3878 fake news and lies from you. I bet you're working directly under daddy Putin and his oligarchs

[@jawaharjohn8238]

Muslims in cremea dont have any idea about about islam i guess.... Dancing, music, liquor, showing body parts including hair prohibited in islam..... u can have them after life..... U have to wait minimum 5000 years to reach ur heaven.....

[@Nekminute]

Russia did the right thing

[@Maluhia808]

yup unlike USA TOOK HAWAIIAN KINGDOM BY GUN POINT

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

Russia is evil