KARAKUL, Russia -- A wildfire has ravaged a 16th century Tatar village in Siberia that authorities had planned to turn into a tourist attraction.. The Omsk Tatars National and Cultural Autonomy ...

Russian authorities are transferring imprisoned Crimean Tatar activists Nariman Dzhelialov and Aziz Akhtemov from occupied Crimea to Minusinsk in eastern Siberia, the news outlet UA.South reported ...

The wetlands of Russia's Tyumen region are the site of the oldest Russian settlement in Siberia. But they are also home to Russians of Tatar descent. They live in the remote villages of Laytamak ...

BAKHCHISARAY, Ukraine — Soon after darkness falls, about a dozen men gather around a community hall on the outskirts of this small city known for its stunning bluffs and grandiose Ottoman-era ...

After decades of Soviet authorities burning Islamic literature and shutting down Islamic schools, Crimean Tatars were deported in the hundreds of thousands to Central Asia and Siberia in 1944.

Lierane was born in Soviet Uzbekistan in 1980 to a family which, like more than 200,000 other Crimean Tatars, was deported en masse to Siberia and Central Asia in 1944 under dictator Josef Stalin.

Among those sent to Uzbekistan and Siberia were the grandparents of actor Akhtem Seitablayev, activist Alim Aliev, and a member of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, Nedim Useinow.

The speaker of the Tatar National Assembly, Refat Chubarov, has gone so far as to call for a boycott of the referendum, which he said "completely ignores the opinion of the peninsula's native ...

Then in 1944, Stalin accused the entire population of Crimean Tatars of collaborating with the Nazis and deported them to Siberia en masse. Piled body to body in cattle cars--“crematoria on ...