Words

• abduct = kidnap
• accuse = blame
• annex = here: take over, take control of
• ban = forbid
• beset by contention = to make someone have a strong opinion
• bind = link
• bless = to be very special
• calm = relaxed
• CCTV = closed circuit television = cameras that let you watch people and what they do
• cement = here: to make stronger
• chide = to tell someone that you do not like something
• declare = to say officially
• despair = a feeling that there is no hope at all
• desperate = to want something really badly
• endangered = to be in a dangerous situation
• former = in the past
• governing body = the people who rule an area
• human rights groups = organisations that fight for the basic rights that people should have
• inconceivable = strange or unusable  to think that something may be possible
• join = be a part of
• legacy = events that happened in history or what a person has achieved in the past
• mainland = the main area of land that forms a country
• majority = most of the people
• navigate = here: find a way to live on
• oppose = to be against
• peninsula = piece of land with water on three sides of it; it reaches out into the sea
• perform = do
• perspective = here: what  a person thinks about something
• predict = say what is going to happen in the future
• reclaim = to get back something that you have lost some time ago
• recognize = here: to say that something is done officially or according to the law
• referendum = when you ask the people of a region about a certain topic
• repression = here: to control and rule over a group of people in a bad way
• rule = control; government
• seize = to capture and take away
• sovereignty = independence , freedom
• special forces = soldiers who have been specially trained to fight
• Tartar community = group of people who live in this part of Russia
• traitor = a person who is not loyal to their country
• trust = to believe strongly in someone
• U-turn = to completely change your plans or ideas