The risk of polarization of ethnicity in Crimea
The article presents the results of studying the spatial markers of politicization process of ethnicity of the Crimean ethnoses. The influence of Slavic and Turkic socio-cultural projects on the appearance of contradictions in the Slavic-Turkic interethnic dialogue in Crimea is analyzed. It is substantiated that it is necessary to take into сonsideration the factor of ethnic split among Crimean Tartars to characterize the current interethnic contradictions in Crimea. The territories that mark the area of socio-cultural tension on the Crimean Peninsula have been singled out.