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.…
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Crimean Tatars
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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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
As long as Crimea remains occupied, Kurban-Bayram will have ‘special meaning’ for Crimean Tatars, mufti says
Mufti Ayder Rustemov, the head of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD) of Crimea who is now living in…
How Stalin destroyed the Crimean Tatar intellectual elite
Major changes in political strategy swept the USSR towards the end of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937-1938,…
CTRC: 35 Crimean Tatars arrested for religious belief since start of 2019
Krasnohvardiysk “Hizb ut-Tahrir Case” (February 14, 2019): Arsen Abkhairov; Eskender Abdulhaniev; Rustem Emiruseinov; Second Simferopol “Hizb ut-Tahrir Case”…
75 years after deportation, Moscow’s genocide of the Crimean Tatars continues
On May 18, Crimean Tatars and their supporters around the world marked the 75th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation…
Latvian Saeima becomes first foreign parliament to recognize genocide of the Crimean Tatars
Two days ago, the Latvian Saeima became the first foreign parliament to adopt a resolution recognizing Soviet treatment…
Russia arrests 23 Crimean Tatars after largest raid ever in occupied Crimea
At about 6 AM on 27 March, Russian security forces raided more than 20 houses of Crimean Tatars…
Since Anschluss, Moscow engaging in slow-motion deportation of Crimean Tatars, Kashapov says
When Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars in 1944, he loaded all of them on trains in the course…
It matters profoundly what ‘Crimean Tatars’ are called, Belitser says
Moscow has made a concerted effort to present the Crimean Tatars as simply a branch of Tatars who…