Akchurin Rasim Suleimanovich

"... Our nation can be proud of their defenders. The fact that among the two thousand generals in the country to top the 90-ies, there were more than 80 generals and admirals of Tatar descent, speaks for itself - Rasim Suleimanovich said in an interview. - At some level, related to the Tatars changes. In 1982, the Military Council of National Air Defense Forces, my candidate was considered for the post of Commander of the Army Air Defense. My candidacy was supported everywhere, but the appointment did not take place. As it turned out, intervened in the matter, the then first secretary of the Leningrad party Romanov, who said: "Surely, besides the Tartar, had not been nominated for the cradle of the October revolyutsiiN.

. As president of the Tatar national-cultural autonomy of the Tatar community in Moscow and Moscow region R. S. Akchurin finds, . that "society must Rossiyskomu how to interpret, . we, . Tatars, . Still other people, . the other we have the mentality, . that the Tatar people want to live an equal among equals, . without division into "senior and junior" in Russia's multinational family of nations. ",