Crimea history

“What was done to you in 1944 has a name. It was genocide”
“What was done to you in 1944 has a name. It was genocide”
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...
The Mosques of the Southern Region of Ukraine in the Historical Documents and the Descriptions Made by Travelers
27/05/2016
If somebody makes the list of mosques that existed in the southern regions of Ukraine, no doubt that it will include more than one thousand Muslim religious places. Most of them were destroyed in the Russian-Turkish wars and the following annexation of territories that previously belonged to the...
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