By March, 6, Ukrainian Muslim community has been stressed by the search in Islamic Cultural Center of Kyiv (where headquarters of Association “Alraid” and Religious Administration of Ukrainian Muslims “Ummah” are located). By the early morning a group of representatives from Kyiv public prosecutor'...
Nowadays, the spiritual and national identities are the particularly acute problem for Muslims living outside the "Islamic world" (considering all convention of this term today). The ethnic groups, who have practised Islam for centuries, decide this issue in easy way: the national identity has...
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 the nation was glued to their television screens, a small but important fact missed many by. This fact, was that the Ukrainian lead singer known as Dzjamala, is in fact a Muslim female – Susanna Jamaladinova.
Dzjamala performed the song “1944” during the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm and...
Due to the latest researches, we know a lot about the cultural heritage of the so-called "Lithuanian Tatars" (Lipka Tatars). This ethnic group lived on the territory of modern Lithuania, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine in the XV century. There is a reason to believe that this ethnic group,...
The contemporary religious Muslim authorities have been debating for a long time about the position of the religion in relation to the present day problems. Given the fact that many Muslim societies suffer from violence, which was attributed to "Islamic" motivation, a lot of authors focuses on the...
For the first time Ukraine was mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle. Not Little Rus’ or something else, but Ukraine. Nobody heard about Moscow and Russia at that time. Learn more impressive...
On March 24, in Odesa, the new book "Islam in Ukraine. History and Modern Times" by Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Theology, Mykhaylo Yakubovych (Ostroh Academy), was presented. This book is covering the period from the Middle Ages to the present day.
The time and the place were not...
On March 24, Odesa hosted the international scientific conference, dedicated to the 350 th anniversary of the research mission-travel throw the lands of the southern regions of Ukraine and Crimea, made by Turkish historian and geographer, Evliya Çelebi.
At the invitation of the organizers of the...
Israeli companies doing business in Crimea may be subject to sanctions, the Ukrainian Embassy in Tel Aviv threatened last week.
According to the Ukrainians, Israeli citizens have been traveling to the Black Sea peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, without permission from Kiev, and...
