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…
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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…
Historical falsification latest stage in Russia’s ethnocide of Circassians, Khakuasheva says
Moscow’s falsification of the history of the Circassians and its disavowal of the imperial nature of Russian policy…
Marking Day of the Circassian Flag online – a national action the pandemic couldn’t stop
For Circassians, who have been deprived of a common territory and even a common ethnic name by Russian…
Genocide today: From acknowledgement to prevention
What have I learned about Genocide and how As the descendant of Ukrainian landed gentry, I have learned…
Stalin’s anti-Ukrainian policies in RSFSR prove Holodomor was a genocide
Apologists for Stalin and the Soviet system to this day insist that the Holodomor cannot be called a…
Stalin’s management of Red Army proves Holodomor a Soviet genocide against Ukrainians
On November 23, Ukrainians and their supporters across the world mark a day in memory of the Holodomor,…
Holodomor, Genocide & Russia: the great Ukrainian challenge
November is the month of remembrance, and this year marks the 86th commemoration of the 1932-33 Holodomor, one…
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…
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…
ECHR decision on “ethnopolitical genocide” in Lithuania deals blow to Soviet crimes
Is punishment inevitable? Commenting on the trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann (one of the organizers of the…
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…
Seven messages from Mustafa Dzhemilev on his 75th Birthday
Mustafa Dzhemilev, who has been fighting for the rights of the Crimean Tatar nation for six decades against…
Russians moving into occupied Crimea now form one-fifth of its population
Since the Russian occupation of Crimea began four years ago, the combination of its longtime residents being forced…
US denounced for suggesting Soviets committed genocide against their own people
Russian officials and pro-Kremlin commentators have reacted angrily to the decision of the US Senate to pass a…
‘The disappeared’ – the hidden part of Russia’s hybrid deportation of the Crimean Tatars
Today as they have done every August 30, the International Day for Remembering Those Who Have Disappeared, Crimean…
Stalin’s terror famine killed Ukrainians at twice the rate of other nationalities, HURI study says
A newly released study by scholars at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) is attracting enormous attention in…