25/01/2016
Officials in Moscow-annexed Crimea said on last Thursday that a revered community leader of Tatars, a Muslim minority with a long history of persecution by Russia, has been arrested in absentia and faces three unspecified charges for "premeditated crimes".
Mustafa Jemilev, a lawmaker in Ukraine's...
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19/01/2016
The history of the struggle for independence of Ukraine has a lot of good and bad pages. In 1918, the first time in two hundred years, Ukrainians could create their own state - Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR). But, from the first days of its existence, thousands of patriots had to defend the...
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04/01/2016
Curiously enough, far West of Ukraine is interesting for Islamic researchers not less than the South-East. For instance, there’s Lviv, whose Muslim community increased dramatically due to the latest events, and a new Muhammad Asad Islamic Cultural Centre was opened last July. Many important dates...
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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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27/11/2015
Crimea has seemed like an exotic place to me since I was a child. It was the land of sunshine, sea, and mountains; most of all, it was the land of the Tatars. They looked different from the rest of us Ukrainians. They spoke a different language, belonged to a different religion, and cooked a...
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10/11/2015
On Ukraine Today’s Viewpoint, Volodymyr Solohub is joined by Imam Nuridin, Islamic Culture Centre in Kyiv, to discuss the violation of religious and human rights of the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula which was annexed by Russia last year.
"Some activists among Crimean Tatars, among...
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30/09/2015
Turkey is going to fully finance the construction of Crimea’s largest mosque, Crimea's Grand Mufti said on Sunday.
Crimea Autonomous Republic’s Grand Mufti Emir Ali Ablayev said that the Russian administration approved the project, which they had been trying to implement for 10 years, from before...
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27/07/2015
Mr.Refat Chubarov, Head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis on his Facebook Page called the Pro-Russian conference of interregional Crimean Tatar public movement “Qırım” a “total failure”. He confirmed small number of delegates from Crimean Tatar Kurultai... |
26/06/2015
“Ukrainian historical monuments: Crimea” is the title of the new contest launched on the Internet on June 26, which is to last until August 31, 2015. This is done by the Ministry of Culture and Social Organisation “Wikimedia Ukraine” in order to fill in the Wikipedia with articles about Crimean...
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26/06/2015
Crimea’s Ministry of Internal Policy And Information made a list of Media whose journalists are banned from working on the peninsula. At the moment, the list contains Informational Agency QHA “Crimean News”, “Crimea.Realities” web-portal, “ATR” TV-Channel and “15 minutes” web-portal, as informed by...
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