“This is a clear victory for Ukraine. For it clearly shows that the culture of Crimea is wonderful and it must be protected. On the international level. I am grateful to former minister of culture Yevhen Nyshchuk for starting this...
On 4 September, Pervomayskoye village of Simferopol region of Crimea saw the detention of Nariman Dzhelyal. On 6 September, a Russia-controlled court in Simferopol heard his mock case, in which the defendant pleaded not guilty. Apart from...
Dilyaver Memetov was detained for his appearance three days earlier at the meeting of Edem Semedlyaev, a human rights lawyer who defends Crimean Tatars in political cases. Memetov was among a few dozens of Crimean Tatars who gathered at...
Crimean Tatar lawyer Edem Semedlyaev was released from a remand prison in occupied Simferopol on the evening of 23 November after spending 12 days under administrative arrest. Members of the Crimean Tatar community came to the jail to...
Dozens of individuals were detained after clashes in Yevpatoria, in Russian-occupied Ukrainian Crimea, on the night of September 22, 2021. Police fired shots into the air to stop the rioters and arrested 58 people as a result of the...
16 August 2021. More than 150 people have gone all the way from occupied Crimea to Rostov-on-Don in Russia. They now stand near the building of the Southern Regional Military Court, guarded by the armed officers of the National Guard of...
Since Russia occupied Crimea in 2014, it has tried to obliterate Crimea’s diverse cultural heritage. But Crimean history can not be erased. It dates from the earliest antiquity and involves many civilizations through time. Different...
Medzhyt Abdurakhmanov Medzhyt Abdurakhmanov is one of the Crimean Tatar political prisoners held in captivity for a crime he never committed. Imprisonment is the price he pays for being an indifferent citizen. Currently, he is staying in a...
Since the beginning of the occupation of Crimea, it were the Crimean Tatars who suffered the brunt of Russian repressions. Their elected representative body — the Mejlis — was banned as an extremist organization in 2016,...
The definition of the term indigenous people in the new legislation goes as follows, “An indigenous people is an autochthonous ethnic community formed on the territory of Ukraine, having its original language and culture, having...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
