19/07/2016
In the interview with ONLINE.UA, Said Ismagilov, the mufti of the Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine "Ummah" had a talk about freedom of conscience in Ukraine; relations between the state and the religious organisations; about Muslims’ life in our country; about the absence of conflict...
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17/07/2016
Mykhaylo Yakubovych, the candidate of historical sciences, the senior researcher at the National University "Ostroh Academy" told the readers of “Ukrinform” about his attitude to Islam, how he wrote his latest book "Philosophical thought of the Crimean Khanate" and how the Crimea affects the...
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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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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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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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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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08/04/2016
On March 24, in Odesa, the new book "Islam in Ukraine. History and Modern Times" by Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Theology, Mykhaylo Yakubovych (Ostroh Academy), was presented. This book is covering the period from the Middle Ages to the present day.
The time and the place were not...
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03/03/2016
Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin has called on the UN Human Rights Council to press on Russia to open access for international organizations to Crimea.
"The constant presence of international organizations, including the UN, the Council of Europe and the OSCE must be allowed on the...
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16/02/2016
For centuries Muslims have been an integral part of Ukrainian society, but they also remained a quiet, little-noticed part until the momentous events of the EuroMaidan Revolution and Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2014-15.
Many Muslims were active participants in the EuroMaidan Revolution, and...
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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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