Kremlin ever more Orwellian on Ukraine and the Crimean Tatars
Yesterday, Vladimir Putin said that “we in Russia have always considered that Russians and Ukrainians are one people,”…
Browsing Tag
Crimean Tatars
241 posts
Ukrainians welcome Tatar refugees from Russian invasion
It’s ironic, but in the Ukrainian crisis President Putin managed to accomplish something that no Ukrainian president could. For…
Moscow urged to stop its ‘hybrid genocide’ of Crimean Tatars
Riza Asanov, president of the Warsaw-based Crimea Foundation, has sent an open letter to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey…
Russia’s efforts to ‘de-Turkify’ Crimea are outrageous and absurd
Calls by Russian politicians to rename Crimea “Tavrida” or “Tavriya” are part of an effort by Moscow to…
Ethnic cleansing at retail market in Crimea: non-Slavic sellers detained en masse
Today at the “Locomotive” retail market in Simferopol (the capitol of Crimea) Russian law enforcement officers in balaclavas…
Crimean authorities order purge of “banned literature”
Residents of annexed Crimea have until the end of the year to relinquish religious literature that is banned…
Refugee flows changing ethnic mix in Crimea
Since Moscow illegally annexed Crimea, some 300,000 people have moved from other regions of Ukraine into the peninsula,…
Mejlis head: two young Crimean Tatars abducted in occupied Crimea
Two Crimean Tatars have been abducted by unidentified individuals in Crimea’s Bilohirsk District, 5 Kanal tv said at…
Myths and stereotypes: Crimean Tatars cannot call themselves an indigenous nation
“Greeks are the island’s indigenous people, they were there before you and me.” – V. Putin a) the…
Myths and stereotypes: Crimean Tatars cannot call themselves an indigenous nation
“Greeks are the island’s indigenous people, they were there before you and me.” – V. Putin a) the…
Is the Mejlis on the brink of forced emigration from Crimea?
Simferopol – The Russian government of the annexed peninsula continues pressuring the ethnic minority, the indigenous people, the…
Journalist Ayder Muzhdabayev: Persecution of Crimean Tatars is a disgrace to Russia
A huge and strong state, the Russian Federation, with the hands of the authorities appointed by it and…
Instead of Voting, Crimean Tatars held Festivities
On September 14, instead of taking part in Russian elections, Crimean Tatars living in Bakhchisaray, Crimea’s historical capital,…
Crimean university students sing the Ukrainian anthem to pro-Russian official’s face
The pro-Russian speaker got a ‘warm’ greeting in one of the peninsula’s universities On Tuesday, the speaker of…
Russia engaging in ethnic cleansing in Crimea – Latvian foreign minister
The Russian occupation authorities in Crimea are engaging in ethnic cleansing on the Ukrainian peninsula, something that the…
A wave of searches in annexed Crimea
Mustafa Chaush Simferopol – Mass searches are being carried out in occupied Crimea. The objects of the Russian…
Moscow to conduct new census to reduce status of Ukrainians and Tatars in Crimea
Soviet and Russian censuses have always been used for political purposes even if that has required massive falsification.…
Turkey will ‘always stand with Crimean Tatars,’ Ankara says
Turkish Foreign Minister Akhmet Davutoglu yesterday in Ankara received Mustafa Cemilev and Refat Chubarov, the two Crimean Tatar…
KHPG: Russia resurrects Soviet ways in treatment of the Crimean Tatars
In yet another ominous echo from Russia’s Soviet past, Refat Chubarov, Head of the Crimean Tatar representative body, the Mejlis,…
Crimean Tatars Banned from Celebrating Flag Day
Crimean Tatars have been banned from celebrating their national Flag Day in downtown Simferopol. Dilyaver Akiyev, Head of…