It took nearly ten days for interfaith youth seminar “The Arc” at Sviato-Uspenska Univska Lavra (Lviv region) to come to the close.
Traditionally, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Lviv, Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies “Tkuma”, Ukrainian Catholic Universitiy, Social...
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...
The Ukrainian Parliament is calling on the U.N. and the E.U. to recognise the mass expulsion of Crimean Tatars, organised by the Soviet Union in 1944, as a genocide of the ethnicity.
The country's lawmakers say, the world needs to condemn "the past and present crimes", committed by the Russian...
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...
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...
Crimean Tatars in Istanbul gathered outside the Russian Consulate in Turkey to honor those who died during their forced deportation in 1944, after they were banned from marking the occasion with their traditional memorial demonstration.
“Anyone who has a conscience will never forget the pain and...
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...
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...
Kyiv city Shevtchenko district Technic Liceum works on its students’ soundly-based education, teaching them to emphasize other people’s grief without making difference between “their people” and “our people”.
The Lyceum's administration continue...
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...
Mourning Meetings, flashmobs and prayers were organized in many Ukrainian cities on May 18 in order to pay the tribute to the memory of the victims of deportation of Crimean Tatar people. People gathered at central squares of their cities at both West and East of the country to voice their support...
