Russia's annexation of Crimea was recognized internationally only by countries such as North Korea and Sudan. In Russia, it ...

Rustem Virati, a 60-year-old Crimean Tatar who was imprisoned by the Russians for eight years, has died in a penal colony in the city of Dmitrovgrad, Russia’s Ulyanovsk Oblast. Source: Refat Chubarov, ...

Riza Izetov, a Crimean Tatar human rights activist sentenced by a Russian court to 19 years in prison, has reported harsh ...

Ten years earlier, his predecessor Stalin had deported Crimea's Tatar population, so the majority population was ethnic Russian. Since 1991 Ukraine has been an independent state. It abandoned its ...

She was born in Chistopol in Tatarstan in October 1931 into a Russian-Tatar family. Her family soon moved to Kazan in southern Russia where she studied music, before moving to the Moscow ...

It also noted one crucial detail, namely that the young Crimean Tatar’s ‘arrest’ was reported in November ... had been found guilty of ‘state treason’ under Article 275 of Russia’s criminal code. The ...

To prove that the Russian narrative isn’t true.” The interior of Tatar Bunar in Odesa Credit : Sasha Maslov Running a restaurant is hard enough at the best of times.

On February 23, 2025, on the eve of the third anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion, a rally in support of ... representatives of the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar communities, the Office of ...