28/11/2014
Borinya, Ukraine — Abdurrahman swept a small pile of breadcrumbs into his hand. Then he picked up the blanket that serves as prayer rug, dinner table and playground, shook it out at the window, and laid it again in the dorm room. He straightened the corners, readying it for the evening prayers he...
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04/11/2014
Presentation of a short documentary by Olha Morkova “Crimea Unveiled” is to be held on November 8, 2014, 6 PM, at the “Master Class” Hall for Education and Culture (Kyiv city, 16a Lavrska Str.). The movie screening is free, however, the preliminary registration is required (please fill in the...
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09/10/2014
This year brought a lot of trials to the regions where most Ukrainian Muslims live. Many of them were forced to leave their homes and search for refuge in the other regions of the country; many people remained in their settlements in constant fear because of the military action going on (in Donbass...
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07/10/2014
Andrew Bennett’s one-week, fact-finding mission begins Monday in Kiev, where he meets religious leaders and government officials, among others. He is also expected to announce a package of Canadian government assistance aimed at promoting religious freedom, democratic development and inter-faith...
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24/09/2014
Since Russia invaded and annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in March, the situation of the Crimean Tatars has significantly deteriorated. They are in an increasingly perilous position with Russia and the illegal Crimean authorities engaged in a campaign of repression, persecution and harassment....
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22/09/2014
Crimea's Russian-backed acting head, Sergei Aksyonov, says the self-governing body of the peninsula's Crimean Tatar community, the Mejlis (Assembly), does not exist.
Aksyonov's remarks come days after law enforcement authorities seized the Mejlis building in the regional capital,...
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19/09/2014
“If the employees of Mejlis and “Crimea” Fund don’t leave the building within 24 hours, they’ll be driven from there by force. The building of the Crimean Tatars’ representative organ will be sealed anyway,” - the law enforcement officers said to the Head of “Crimea” Fund Mr.Riza Shevkiev
It bears...
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18/09/2014
Yesterday Putin’s storm troops made a move on Crimean Tatars, a people whose claim on the peninsula predates the Russians’ by centuries.
Ever since the anschluss of the Crimea last March, the Tatars, who make up about 12 per cent of the population, have been on the receiving end of persecution.This...
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18/09/2014
Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Jemilev and the head of Crimean Tatar Mejlis Refat Chubarov will run for election into the Ukrainian parliament on October 26 representing the political bloc led by President Petro Poroshenko.
According to bloc leader Yuriy Lutsenko, the Crimean Tatar leaders have urged...
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26/08/2014
Crimea’s veiled Muslim women have been complaining over being targeted by police for security checks ahead of a visit by Russian president Vladimir Putin to the black sea peninsula later this week.
“This shows that Russian police do not trust headscarfed women and see them as a separate group in...
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