Russian occupiers continue to destroy history and culture of Crimean Tatars
The sacking of Bilyal Bilyalov as head of the Crimean Tatar Academic Musical-Dramatic Theater this week on trumped…
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Moscow still refuses to recognize Soviet genocide of Ingermanlanders
Most of the peoples whom Stalin deported have been allowed to return to their home areas and have…
Putin repeating Stalin’s genocide with ‘new hybrid deportation of Crimean Tatars’
Seventy years after Stalin expelled 200,000 Crimean Tatars from their homeland, Vladimir Putin is doing it again, albeit…
74 years on, Russian genocide of Crimean Tatars continues
Seventy-four years ago, Joseph Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars from their historical homeland, an action that cost nearly…
The Crimean Tatar Palace and other historic sites Russia is destroying in occupied Crimea
Read also: Crimea’s occupied cultural heritage Among the illegal activities in Crimea, the prosecutors mentioned the following suspected crimes:…
How the word “genocide” is abused in pro-Kremlin language
Ukrainian ‘genocide’ Ukraine is probably the most frequent target of this alternative use of the genocide term. In…
British House of Commons once again calls to recognize the Holodomor as genocide
During a debate held on 7 November, MPs from the House of Commons in Britain (lower chamber of…
Why the Holodomor is genocide under UN convention: On Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine
Between 1932–33, Stalin sought to wipe out the very concept of an independent Ukraine by targeting its peasantry…
Portugal recognizes Ukraine’s Holodomor famine as genocide
The Parliament of Portugal adopted a resolution recognizing the Holodomor famine of 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine as a…
The Unsung Lament: Russian Atrocities in Caucasus
“Russian Tsars attack a small people with millions of soldiers and they consider themselves noble.” Kube Şaban, Circassian…
It’s long past time to identify and shame Holodomor deniers
One of the positive developments of recent decades has been the willingness of historians and those concerned with…
Crimea’s occupied cultural heritage
The Russian occupation of Crimea affected all areas of life on the peninsula. The situation with violation of…
Deportation, genocide, and Russia’s war against Crimean Tatars
On May 18, Ukraine marks the anniversary of the deportation of Crimean Tatars from Crimea that took place…
I survived genocide. Stories of survivors of Crimean Tatar deportation
On 18-20 May 1944, the Crimean Tatar population of Crimea was deported on Moscow’s orders. This forcible eviction…
Why compare the Holodomor and the Holocaust
Professor Philippe de Lara gave a lecture about the unique nature of the two genocides: the Holocaust as…
Russia’s David and Goliath, II: Nemtsov protégé Yashin writes report on Chechnya’s Kadyrov
Ilya Yashin announced yesterday on Twitter that he was in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Russia’s restive republic…
Russia’s policy of genocide
The decision by the Ukrainian Parliament to recognize the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 as genocide is not…
History, Identity and Holodomor Denial: Russia’s continued assault on Ukraine
On Saturday November 7, 2015, a long-awaited memorial to a little-known modern genocide will be dedicated in Washington…
Siberian activist: Non-Russian republics must block Moscow from sending their sons to Ukraine
Sayana Mongush, a prominent Tyvan* activist who earlier served in that republic’s parliament, says that the governments of…
Stalin’s Holodomor in Kazakhstan, or a very brief guide to “The Goloshchekin genocide”
In 1876, in the Russian town of Nevel, a little Bolshevik figure by the name of Philip Isaevich…