The decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of the United Nations will be an indulgence for Russia to strengthen repression against the Crimean Tatars in the temporarily occupied territory, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov believes.

"Russia perceives this as an indulgence to intensify repression and persecution of the Crimean Tatars, the entire Crimean Tatar people. They will crowd the indigenous people even harder out from the peninsula," Chubarov said on the air of the national telethon on Friday.

Chubarov predicts that Russia will try to use the court's decision on other international platforms, which can be observed in the near future at forums of UN institutions.

"With this decision, they will try to challenge previous resolutions of the UN General Assembly …Of course, they will not succeed ... but it will still give the Russians grounds to delay ... consideration of issues on international platforms," Chubarov said.

As reported, on January 31, the International Court of Justice rejected most of Ukraine's claims against Russia regarding the application of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

Ukraine filed a lawsuit against Russia in the International Court of Justice in The Hague in connection with Russia's violation of International conventions on January 16, 2017.

The lawsuit included the fact that the aggressor country discriminated against Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, banned the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, as well as disappearances, murders and illegal searches and detentions of people in the temporarily occupied Crimea.