On 18 May 1944, the tragic deportation of Crimean Tatars was initiated by the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD). In result, at least 183,185 people were evicted (up to 240,000 by other estimates) – the...
The film title refers to the family story of the author. In the late 1950s, Crimean Tatar artists deported to Central Asia organized a folk song and dance ensemble. The uncle of Akhtem Seitablaiev suggested to call it “Haytarma,” which...
Among the many films prohibited for public screening in Russia is Haytarma, the first feature film about Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homeland. The forceful eviction of nearly 200,000 people (238,500 by other...
Even as the Russian occupation forces do everything they can to repress the Crimean Tatars, the most consistent opponents of Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of their homeland, some in the Russian Duma are proposing to “open the peninsula to...
For three weeks prior to the second sentence, Ruslan was on hunger strike protesting against the state terror Russia brought to Crimea. He is one of at least 42 Ukrainian citizens who are now held in custody by the Russian regime as...
On 26 April 2017, Russian military court sentenced the Crimean Tatar activist Ruslan Zeytullaev to 12-year imprisonment. He is one of at least 42 Ukrainian citizens who are now held political hostages of the Kremlin. For three weeks,...
Ruslan is now undergoing a farcical trial in Russia for the second time. As he explains, the hunger strike is his personal act of protest against the ruthless xenophobic repression of the Crimean Tatar people, of which his own unfair case...
Difference between Russia and Ukraine 21 March is the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. On this very day three years ago, the federal constitutional law on the annexation of Crimea by Russia officially...
Today, on the third anniversary of Putin’s Crimean Anschluss, the Russian government is orchestrating demonstrations across Russia in support of that action. But there are five signs that popular support for “Crimea is Ours” is far...
– What was your goal in telling these stories? – My goal was to tell the story of these people. I wanted to show how strong their love is and how easily politics destroys their lives that could have turned into something...
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Is Poroshenko just like Yanukovych?
It's been three years since the election of Petro Poroshenko as President of Ukraine. Is he following in Yanukovych's footsteps? There are many reasons many arguments for and against. that statement. What do you think?
When we ask why historical responsibility, why German historical responsibility, I want to begin from the universal point of view. I’m not coming to you as an American saying “we’ve understood our past and th6.erefore...
