25/04/2015
In the Crimea, the only Crimean Tatar TV channel has stopped broadcasting based on Russian authorities’ refusal to renew its license. The station, ATR, which broadcast in the Tatar language to what officials say was an audience of 4 million people in Crimea and beyond, went off the air on April 1,...
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19/03/2015
Before the arrival of Imperial Russian troops in Crimea in 1783, Bakhchisarai was the capital of a Tatar kingdom.
Today’s tense mood, one year after the Russian Federation’s annexation of the peninsula, has brought back old fears among Crimean Tatars, who make up around 13% of its population.
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