Crimean Tatars Archives - Page 3 of 13

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“I do not want my children to live in a country of terror.” Four inspiring letters from Crimean Tatar political prisoners not broken by Russia

Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Russian occupation authorities have established a highly repressive regime on…

byYuliia Rudenko

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Russia’s vile attempts to discredit the Crimean Tatars must not be kept silent

After the occupation of Crimea in 2014, Russian authorities launched a wave of raids and searches in Crimean…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Russian prison system is a ticking time bomb for health of a Crimean Tatar

On 12 October 2016, Kamenka and Strohanovka districts of Simferopol city in Crimea saw arbitrary mass searches in…

byYuliia Rudenko

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Crimean Tatars’ return from deportation documented by project on Ukraine’s wild 90’s | WATCH ONLINE

The long way home: deportation and return of Crimean Tatars to their Homeland The documentary, aired by Ukraine’s…

byChristine Chraibi

Part of the virtual flashmob by Crimean Tatars to protest their brutal persecution by the Russian occupationary force in Crimea. May 18, 2021 (Source: social media via doshdu.com)

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Putin repeating Stalin’s deportation of Crimean Tatars in slow motion

But on this anniversary, the first since the easing of the pandemic, Crimean Tatars both in the homeland…

byPaul A. Goble

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Being yourself is not a crime: look into the eyes of kids of Crimean Tatar political prisoners jailed by Russia

Childhood is a time of brightest memories, which you remember for the rest of your life. The childhoods…

byUkrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Photo project spotlights Crimean Tatar kids born after their fathers’ unlawful arrests by Russian occupation authorities

2021 marked the seventh anniversary of the Russian occupation of the part of sovereign Ukrainian territory, the Crimean…

byYuliia Rudenko

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(No) right to a fair trial, or a manual to Russia’s conveyor of repressions in Crimea

Seven years ago, Russian Special Operations Forces with no badges yet equipped with Russian weapons took over a…

byYuliia Rudenko

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International

Indigenous leader accuses Russia of ethnocide at UN Forum

For the first time in history, an official UN event heard an address delivered in the Erzya language.…

byYuliia Rudenko

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Political prisoners

Russia comes for Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea once again

During the search. Photos: Crimean Solidarity Six Crimean Tatars arrested in raids committed by Russian law enforcement in…

byAlya Shandra

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Crimea

Ukraine’s evidence in ECtHR: proof of Russia’s occupation of Crimea, human rights violations

The full description as well as references and supporting facts were included in the description of the court…

byBohdan Ben

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The myth of “historically Russian Crimea”: colonialism, deconstructed

On 23 June 1978, a Soviet police officer came to the house of a Crimean Tatar Musa Mamut…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Crimean Tatars in the crosshairs of Russia’s war on Muslims

On 16 September, seven more Crimean Tatars from the Crimean peninsula which Russia occupied in 2014 were predictably…

byAlya Shandra

Mustafa Dzhemilev (Photo: Stanislav Yurchenko, RFE/RL)

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‘Crimean Tatar tragedy of 1944 being repeated’ and with more damaging effect, Dzhemilev says

Seventy-six years ago on May 18, Stalin ordered the deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homelands to…

byPaul A. Goble

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Video

Apakay – a song for the Crimean Tatars deported by Stalin

On 18 May 1944, Stalin deported all the indigenous population of Crimea, more than 230,000 Crimean Tatars, from…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Crimea

76 years after deportation, Crimean Tatars are again being erased from history in Crimea

Only in 1989 did the USSR condemn the deportation, after which the indigenous people of Crimea started returning…

byOlena Makarenko

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Sürgünlik: Remembering Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944

On May 10, 1944, Lavrentiy Beria, the notorious chief of the NKVD (Soviet security and secret police), recommended…

byChristine Chraibi

Policemen enforcing COVID-19 regime in Yalta on the Russia-annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, May 2020

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Russian occupiers treating Crimeans during pandemic even worse than Moscow does Russian Federation residents, Kirillova says

The Putin regime’s failure to provide adequate support for Russians it has ordered to remain at home in…

byPaul A. Goble

A congress of Crimean Tatar organizations in Ankara, Turkey on October 27, 2019 (Photo: qha.com.tr)

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46 Crimean Tatar organizations call for end to Russian occupation of their homeland

Meeting in Ankara, representatives of 46 Crimean Tatar organizations said that the only way to end human rights…

byPaul A. Goble

A heavily-protected Russian entry point into the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea annexed by Russia in March 2014 (Image: Kommersant.ru)

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Experts: UN report understates Moscow’s effort to Russify occupied Crimea

Ukrainian officials are pleased that the United Nations has acknowledged that Russia is an occupying power in Crimea…

byPaul A. Goble