MOSCOW, April 17. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin told studio and television audiences on Thursday he will sign a decree to “rehabilitate” Crimean Tatars and other peoples of Crimea who suffered from Stalin-era repression.

“We are preparing a decree — I am working on this as well as my colleagues in the government and the presidential staff — for rehabilitation of Crimean Tatar people,” Putin told the public at his annual question-and-answer session.