Ukrainian hostage of the Kremlin and political prisoner Ruslan Zeytullaev announced a hunger strike on 27 July. This day, he was unlawfully sentenced to 15 years in Russian prison. This time, the court increased his jail time from 12 years...
I would like to appeal to my long-suffering people, who have sustained a lot of violence and forcible resettlements, who want to retain our faith, which the faithless cannot understand, who succeeded to return to their homeland from all...
The Russian prosecution saw both previous sentences as insufficient and appealed against them in the Rostov Military Court and then in Moscow. The aim was to jail the builder from Sevastopol, a Muslim believer and a father of three, who...
Imperial nostalgia against the memory of victims In June 2017, a month after the 73d anniversary of Sürgünlik (the deportation of Crimean Tatars), the Russian occupation authorities of Crimea initiated the prosecution of activists who...
Zair Smedlyaev, head of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar People, talks about how the Russian authorities are trying to replace the indigenous population of Crimea with Russians and how such a policy affects the interests of...
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...
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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?
On 14 August 2017, the New York Times published an article by Pulitzer winning journalists William Broad and David E. Sanger stating that North Korea’s recent ballistic missile success is explained by black market purchases of rocket...
