By Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) -When Ukrainian Leniie Umerova crossed into Russia on her way to see her ailing father ...

Some Tatars also see a religious element in their shoddy treatment: Muslim graves were desecrated in April last year, and for the past five years the Tatars have struggled unsuccessfully for an ...

Russia's cabinet of ministers proposed draft bill No. 38726-8, which formally prohibits prisoners convicted of so-called ...

Since Russia took over Crimea this spring, many Crimeans have gladly switched their passports from Ukrainian to Russian. But not everyone is so eager to become a Russian citizen.

But the Tatars, improbably, have revived themselves and are once again political players in Crimea. They are no longer the rulers, but as a politically active minority, they could act as the wild ...

BELOGORSK, Crimea — Crimea's Tatars have bitter memories of the 1944 deportation that tore them from their native peninsula. With Russia again in control, some here say pressure is building once ...

The Tatars once ruled Crimea and their armies and those of the Mongols even sacked Moscow in the 14th and 15th centuries. They fell under Russian domination in 1783 when Crimea was taken from the ...

Crimean Tatars, predominately Muslims who descend from Turkic and Mongol inhabitants of the Black Sea region, boycotted the referendum as "illegitimate," but now they worry what will come of them.

The minority Muslim group were called traitors by Stalin, and are branded Muslim radicals by Putin's Russia.

The Tatars, he recalled, along with others on the peninsula opposed to Russia’s invasion, formed territorial defense groups, but without access to arms they were powerless.

Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula was invaded by Russia in 2014 and illegally annexed from Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

STORY: Ukrainian Leniie Umerova is a member of the Crimean Tatar community indigenous to the Black Sea peninsula that was ...