25/05/2016
This Saturday (May 14), for the first time ever, Americans were able to watch the final round of the Eurovision song contest live. The contest is a very big deal. Two hundred million people around the world watch contestants from 42 countries (mostly Europe as well as Australia and Israel) compete...
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23/05/2016
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...
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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...
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07/04/2016
After the terrorist attacks had been held in Brussels, a new one Islamophobia surged the world society was out. On March 27, at the studio of “Hromadske Radio”, Mufti of Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine “UMMA” Said Ismagilov commented on the current situation: how to overcome...
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06/04/2016
The Kyiv Post’s March 29 Capturing New Markets conference presented a discussion of the key strategies that Ukrainian companies can use in exporting to the European Union, Turkey and the Middle East and North Africa region. The conference attracted more than 260 business people, journalists and...
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28/03/2016
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...
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03/03/2016
Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin has called on the UN Human Rights Council to press on Russia to open access for international organizations to Crimea.
"The constant presence of international organizations, including the UN, the Council of Europe and the OSCE must be allowed on the...
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16/02/2016
For centuries Muslims have been an integral part of Ukrainian society, but they also remained a quiet, little-noticed part until the momentous events of the EuroMaidan Revolution and Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2014-15.
Many Muslims were active participants in the EuroMaidan Revolution, and...
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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...
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25/12/2015
In the first part of the interview, Said ISMAGILOV, Mufti of the Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine “Ummah,” described how the life of Ukrainian Muslims, particularly those who are on the...
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