Russia’s FSB have arrested six Ukrainian Muslims, five of them Crimean Tatars, after armed searches of seven homes in the early morning of 17 February 2021. The FSB and heavily armed Rosgvardia officers were clearly interested only in books, and in at least one case, claimed to find the so-called...
From now on May 18 is to be celebrated every year as the Ukrainian Crimean Tatars’ Rights defence Day. A respective decree is published on the President’s website.
“Taking into account that the Crimean Tatars face a new danger of discrimination on their native land 70 years after the former Soviet...
This Saturday will be the opening night for the Ukrainian movie “Haytarma” by Ahtem Seitablaev dedicated to 70th anniversary of Crimean tatar deportation, the TSN reports. This is the first movie on the forced deportation of Crimean Tatars introducing this tragical date of May 18 to general...
“Qırım” Newspaper has financial problems every year, it even stopped publishing in 2011 because of the lack of Money. Today the State Treasury froze assets of UAH 150,000 meant for its funding.
“Qırım” is a modern newspaper in Crimean Tatar language; it has been the first state published edition in...
The third annual meeting of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis governing officials with heads of diplomatic missions and international organisations accredited in Ukraine took place in Kyiv on November 21.
More than 30 European embassies, UN and EU international organisations and the complement Mejlis headed...
More than 2,000 people took part in a traditional climbing on Chatyr-Dag, one of the highest mountains of Crimea, in the memory of victims of Crimean Tatar people’s deportation in 1944.
The event was arranged by the Crimean tatar Mejlis, Crimean Federation of Traditional “Kuresh” Wrestling and some...
A multilateral meeting of AUASO “Alraid” delegates with the newly elected Head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis Mr. Refat Chubarov took at the Mejlis Office place on Friday, November 29. Head of the AUASO “Alraid” Mr. Bassil Marrei, his deputy Mr. Ismail Qady, Deputu Head of “Alraid” Office in Crimea Mr...
Poland awarded a prize for championing democracy and human rights to Mustafa Jemilev, a leader of the Tatar community in Ukraine's Crimea peninsula who says he was barred from the region after Russia annexed it.
«He is a defender of Ukraine’s integrity," said Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw...
Famous Crimean Tatar master of ceramics speaks of returning from deportation, reviving the Crimean Tatar material culture, arts and crafts, and of difficulties of the current situation at the peninsula.
Rustem Skibin is well-known by...
Nongovernmental organizations in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan have nominated the veteran leader of Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Jemilev, for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The organizations’ leaders told that Dzhemilev, a dissident who was imprisoned by the Soviets over his campaign for the rights of Crimean...
“If people who love Ukraine and speak for dignity, liberty and equal rights are called Banderites, then Ukrainian Muslims and particularly Crimean Tatars can, with some humour, be called Islamo-Banderites”, notes Mufti Said Ismagilov. He speaks to The Ukrainian Week about the current situation, the...
