Today, Crimea bid farewell to one of the most active figures of the Crimean Tatar national movement, Arsen Alchikov. He died on January 12 at the age of 84 in the village of Krasnovka. Having joined the national struggle in the 1960s, Alchikov met with the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Anastas Mikoyan, and was convicted for participating in a rally in Tashkent — the court case is known in Crimean Tatar history as the «Trial of the Twelve». Arsen Alchikov was one of the first to return to Crimea in 1975 and continued to fight for the rights of the people until the end of his days.