When Ukrainian Leniie Umerova crossed into Russia on her way to see her ailing father in their native Crimea in late 2022, ...

KAZAN, Russia — This month, school officials across Tatarstan were ordered to trim by half the number of hours of optional lessons offered in the Tatar language — from four a week down to two.

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

In late 2014, shortly after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, we interviewed three generations of respondents in 300 Crimean Tatar families who had returned to Crimea.

Shevket Zmorka, a musician, was in Kiev in 2014 as the Russian annexation of Crimea unfolded. He was offered a job in Kiev, and has not returned to Crimea since.

KAZAN, Russia -- Tatar language classes are no longer mandatory in Russia's Tatarstan region, a senior official has announced. Tatarstan Prosecutor-General Ildus Nafikov said on November 29 that ...

Deputy Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Nariman Dzhelyal has officially assumed his duties as Ukraine's ...

Speaking Tatar, wearing traditional clothes, playing Tatar music, organizing different festivals is now seen as a sign of prestige. Tatar songs are featured more often on federal media channels: young ...

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 annexed from Ukraine by Russia in 2014.:: FileThe 27-year-old grew up with her ...