For nearly two years in Russian captivity, Leniye Umerova clung to a single hope: that one day, she would return home — to ...

The U.S. is reportedly considering officially recognizing Russian control over occupied Crimea as part of a potential peace ...

Nine years after the Russian occupiers banned the Mejlis, the Crimean Tatar people’s spirit of freedom and struggle remains ...

The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people issued a statement on Thursday rejecting any proposals that imply recognition of ...

The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People categorically rejects any proposals or actions aimed at recognizing as Russian the ...

Why does Russia want the Crimea? The fight for power in the Black Sea - Why is a peninsula in Eastern Europe at the centre of ...

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the USSR, to ...

The people of Crimea known as the Crimean Tatars have made their position clear. They do not accept any plans by other ...

Crimea has been under Russian occupation since 2014. Moscow illegally annexed the territory following a sham referendum held under military occupation.

When Russia first invaded Ukraine and Moscow soldiers entered Crimea in 2014, Ukraine’s foreign partners were asking Crimean authorities not to "provoke Russia," Chairman of the Crimean Tatar ...

Before the war, around two million people lived in Crimea. An estimated 12% of those were Tatars, Turkish-speaking indigenous people. Large groups of Tartars were deported from Crimea by Soviet ...