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

Soviet forces under Stalin’s orders deported nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars, the peninsula’s native population, to Central ...

For example, work has begun on restoring the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchisaray. Barinov recalled that about 17% of Crimean Tatars voted in the referendum on Crimea’s reunification with Russia in 2014.

After the occupation of Crimea, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin promised to resolve all the "problems" of the Crimean Tatars and make them "happy," Mustafa Dzhemiliev, Leader of the Crimean Tatars and ...

Elina Novokhatska at the ‘Memorial to the Genocide of the Crimean Tatars’ in Kyiv. Aqmescit is the native name of her hometown, Simferopol. Photo: Bradley Stafford. Elina Novokhatska was born in 1998 ...

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, ...

Atesh is a partisan group made up of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians, that is operating behind Russian lines in the occupied territories. Meaning "Fire" in the Crimean Tatar language, the group was ...

The newly-established public television and radio station was established in Crimea after the Crimean Tatars’ television channel ATR stopped broadcasts on April 1, 2015 SIMFEROPOL, September 1.

There are currently 221 citizens of Ukraine in Russian prisons, 134 of them are Crimean Tatars, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said on the Day of Resistance to the Occupation of Crimea. "All ...