There are around thirty-five symbols in total, each with its unique meaning and connotations. The Crimean Tatar communities understand the meaning of the symbols and often commission artisans to ...

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 ...

Russia’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but ...

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, ...

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 MP of Ukraine says in an ...

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 ...

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.

The official recalled that in March 2014 more than 80% of Crimean Tatars ignored the referendum on the issue of reunification with Russia UNITED NATIONS, May 14. /TASS/. The socio-economic ...

Riza Izetov, a Crimean Tatar human rights activist sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment by a Russian court, has spoken of the harsh conditions in the Yakutsk penal colony where he has been repeatedly ...

The bespectacled, bearded Crimean Tatar community leader is a devout Muslim. He said most of the meals he was served contained pork, the consumption of which is forbidden in Islam. “I just took ...