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“What was done to you in 1944 has a name. It was genocide”

The words above were spoken by a great Ukrainian Petro Grigorenko when he addressed Crimean Tatars exiled in Moscow in 1968, almost 25 years after the Deportation. Nearly 50 years later, Crimean Tatars are once again exiled or persecuted, and Grigorenko’s advice on demanding their rights and...

Crimean Muslim refugees feel welcome, but there’s no place like home 26/05/2016 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...	For Crimean Tatars, it is about much more than 1944 20/05/2016 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...
Putin’s Imperial Adventure in Syria 28/01/2016 IN June 1772, Russian forces bombarded, stormed and captured Beirut, a fortress on the coast of Ottoman Syria. The Russians were backing their ally, a ruthless Arab despot. When they returned the next year, they occupied Beirut for almost six months. Then as now, they found Syrian politics a...	Role of Muslims in the Straggle for Independence of Ukraine 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...
Why Ukrainians Hate When You Say 'The Ukraine' 13/11/2015 On Tuesday evening, two Republican presidential candidate hopeful accidentally enraged Ukrainian Americans with a single word: "the." John Kasich and Donald Trump referred to Ukraine as "the Ukraine," a common but unfortunate mistake. Lindsey Graham made the same blunder at the third GOP debate. ...	Mykhailo Yakubovych: Ukraine must evolve from Russian to Western approach to Islamic communities 28/05/2015 Ukraine is still living with the Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD) system the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union imposed on the faithful, but if Ukraine’s Muslims are to escape the limitations and dangers these institutions entail, they must adopt the more open approach to Islamic communities...
Crimean Tatars: Remembering Russia’s Deportation in 1944 03/05/2014 Recent events have made it clear that Russia has little sympathy for Crimean Tatars, who fear that the annexation of their homeland to Russia will once again shake their community. “Step by step, we have led Crimeans to realize their dream of returning home to Russia,” Vladimir Konstantinov, the...

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