15/06/2017
Ukrainians have long struggled with fake news from Russia, but last week, they discovered something even more insidious: a fake journalist.
The man was tall and dapper. He wore a dark suit and spoke with a French accent. When he met politicians in Kiev, he introduced himself as Alex Werner, a...
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18/05/2017
The words above were spoken by a great Ukrainian Petro Grigorenko when he addressed Crimean Tatars exiled in Moscow in 1968, almost 25 years after the Deportation. Nearly 50 years later, Crimean Tatars are once again exiled or persecuted, and Grigorenko’s advice on demanding their rights and...
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03/02/2017
"It was an awful situation. Many were dead, many injured when I arrived in the square. Some priests and I tried to identify who among the dead were Christians and Muslims so that we could perform last rites and prayers. The dead kept coming," he says. "That was the evening of February 20th....
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14/12/2016
On September 27th 2014, 18-year-old Islyam Dzhepparov poured coffee for his father Abdureshit at home in Belogorsk, Crimea, before leaving the house to visit his uncle’s family nearby.
At 7pm a neighbour drove into Dzhepparov’s yard. He said he had just seen Islyam and another young man being...
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16/11/2016
The II International Forum of Religion and Peace was held in Batumi (Georgia) recently, which was attended by religious leaders and human rights activists from around the world. In addition to the representatives of the host country, the forum was attended by the delegations from Turkey, Iran,...
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09/08/2016
The media reports a lot about acts of terrorism, committed by Islamists, or ‘so-called’ Islamists recently. The tragic news come from many parts of the world — France, the USA, Turkey, the Middle East. The profane reader or observer might get the impression that all Muslims are abnormally...
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19/07/2016
Ukraine is not Russia... With whole set of questions and different attitudes to the personality of ex-president Leonid Kuchma, his phrase of the headline of his book, today is cited by his sympathizers, and those citizens whose opinions about the time of his presidency and "multi-vector foreign...
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29/05/2016
ON May 14th Crimea’s indigenous Tatars sat glued to their screens, watching as Jamala, a Ukrainian singer of Tatar descent, won the Eurovision song contest. Jamala’s song “1944” commemorated Stalin’s brutal deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar population. For Russia’s government, the song was an...
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23/05/2016
As the nation was glued to their television screens, a small but important fact missed many by. This fact, was that the Ukrainian lead singer known as Dzjamala, is in fact a Muslim female – Susanna Jamaladinova.
Dzjamala performed the song “1944” during the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm and...
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20/05/2016
As Crimean Tatars mark the anniversary of their mass deportation, they also remember Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Kyiv, Ukraine - There are fewer and fewer survivors of the Crimean Tatar deportations around to tell their stories, but Tamila Tasheva and her colleagues have been able...
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