22/09/2020
A Russian court on 16 September 2020 sentenced Crimean Tatar civic journalist Seiran Saliyev to 16 years’ imprisonment on an identical charge to that used by the Soviet regime against his great-grandfather. The latter’s refusal to go into a collective farm, after the Soviets had taken away...
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13/12/2017
According to the Crimean media, FIFA, the International Football Federation, has blocked the possibility of buying tickets for the games of the 2018 World Cup for the residents of the occupied Crimean Peninsula.
It is worth noting that FIFA website gives an error when one tries to book tickets on...
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06/12/2016
34 Ukrainian Muslim organisations have signed a Charter of Muslims of Ukraine aimed at joining in a single consolidating force for Ukrainian unity. The move and the affirmation of support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity are especially vital given the challenges brought by Russia’s occupation...
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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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26/05/2016
Ukraine’s Crimean Tatar Muslims have persevered through centuries of persecution, including an alleged Soviet-sponsored genocide in 1944. With Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimea, the Tatars are now facing renewed persecution in the form of government crackdowns and forced exile. Special...
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26/05/2016
Ukraine’s Crimean Tatar Muslims have persevered through centuries of persecution, including an alleged Soviet-sponsored genocide in 1944. With Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimea, the Tatars are now facing renewed persecution in the form of government crackdowns and forced exile. Special...
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18/04/2016
Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Abduldzhemil Kirimoglu has slammed Russia’s suspension of minority’s supreme executive commission.
A Russia-backed prosecutor in Crimea suspended the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Wednesday to “prevent violations of the federal laws.”
Addressing World Crimean Tatar...
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14/03/2016
On March 12, in Kyiv, around the National Complex “Expocenter of Ukraine” for about 200 athletes, activists, and other people, who are not indifferent to the reunification of Crimea with Ukraine, arranged a run, reaching a distance of 1 377 kilometres in total, instead of 812 km planned...
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26/01/2016
Israeli companies doing business in Crimea may be subject to sanctions, the Ukrainian Embassy in Tel Aviv threatened last week.
According to the Ukrainians, Israeli citizens have been traveling to the Black Sea peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, without permission from Kiev, and...
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01/01/2016
Turkish Foreign Ministry has refuted claims of Turkey's support to voluntary groups such as "Crimean Tatar battalion", spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said.
"These groundless claims are coming as a part of larger Russian black propaganda campaign launched against our country (Turkey) in the recent...
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