06/08/2014
Ukrainian Muslims celebrated Eid al-Fitr - the feast accomplishing the month of fasting during Ramadan. More than 2,000 believers came to the mosque at Kyiv Islamic Cultural Centre in order to perform the festive prayer together - not only local Muslims, but some diplomats from Muslim countries and...
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08/07/2014
When Refat Chubarov, a political leader of Crimea’s indigenous Tatar population, attempted to cross the border into his homeland on Saturday, he was met by squads of Russian riot police and a prosecutor who handed down a mandate banning him from the Black Sea peninsula for five years. While this is...
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01/07/2014
A website close to the new “authorities”, “Kryminfo” website shared the news stating that the Federation of Crimean Tatar Communities of Turkey allegedly supported the reunion of “Republic Crimea” with Russian Federation. At the same time, Crimean Tatars in Ukraine note that the “Federation” is a...
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01/07/2014
A new mosque was built in the town of Izobilnoe (historical name Qorbek, Alushta district) at the very same place where the old mosque was situated before the 1944 deportation. Famous Crimean Tatar businessman living in Turkey, a grandson of this mosque’s former Imam Mr. Davlet-hajji Islam, donated...
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19/06/2014
In Dnipropetrovsk Mr. Mustafa Jemilev and the governor of Dnipropetrovsk region Mr. Igor Kolomoiski signed memorandum in relation their partnership.
The official website of the Regional government department has informed of this. The main purpose of the agreement is the development of relations,...
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12/06/2014
A colloquium took place at the French National institute of foreign languages and civilizations. Its main topic entitled, `The fate of the Crimean peninsula`. Mari-Sibil de Vien, the head of the Commission of International relations of the Institute and Philip de Surmen, former ambassador of France...
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30/05/2014
One unconsciously feels like a participant of the events 70 years ago, having attended the exhibition “Tears of Memory” by a Crimean artist Mr. Valeri Sorokin at the Crimean Historical Museum “Larishes”. Every painting tells about tears, pain and suffering of the entire people.
Valeri Sorokin...
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30/05/2014
Some Ukrainian and foreign Media distributed the news about several dozens Crimean Tatars who asked for political refuge in Poland in late March. A polish human rights officer, however, has another information and says that about 50 people from Crimea came to Poland, and only 20 of them are Crimean...
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26/05/2014
Muslims all over Ukraine (along with most compatriots of other confessions) revealed a high level civil consciousness and came to the ballot stations in the day of snap presidential elections. Most of the population from Donbass and Crimea, unfortunately, couldn’t do the same this year.
According...
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21/05/2014
Jews, Tatars, Roma, Turks, Africans, Arabs, Azerbaijanis... all feel uneasy and possibly at risk in the turmoil of eastern Ukraine. The Independent reports on increasing tensions in an area where persecution is woven into history.
Donetsk has historically been a cosmopolitan city. Founded in the...
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