A Russian court sentenced civic journalist and Crimean Solidarity Coordinator Server Mustafayev to 14 years’ imprisonment on 16 September. His sentence and those of seven other Crimean Solidarity civic journalists and activists were read out without a single western diplomat, journalist or...
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...
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...
A huge dome over 5 tonnes was fixed over the future town’s central Mosque. Two little domes and a crescent were settled on the roof as well. They had to invite specialists from Cherkassy in order to make the dome, the...
The Crimean tatar Mejlis managed to get the new Crimean government’s permission to hold an All-Crimean Mourning meeting on May 18.
The event dedicated to 70th anniversary of Crimean Tatars forced deportation is to be held at the Simferopol central square.Members of Mejlis managed to persuade the...
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...
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...
Bakhchisaray, Crimea -- As the reality of having to live in another country begins to sink in for Crimeans, one ethnic group, the Crimean Tatars, are reviving a long-held dream: to live autonomously on the peninsula.
At a March 29 session in the historical Crimean Tatar capital of...
Ukrainian Parliament guarantees protecting rights of Crimean Tatars as a part of Ukraine. 283 MPs supported this decision. “Ukraine guarantees maintaining and developing Crimean Tatar ethnic, cultural, language and religious identity as the indigenous population and other ethnic minorities of...
Representatives of Crimean Tatar social organisations and Head of Crimean Tatar Mejlis Mr. Refat Chubarov gathered at a roundtable on March 25. Having discussed the current political situation in Crimea, the participants started working on a question How they should deal with these circumstances....
