15/12/2014
Belarus Muslim women are still banned to get their photo for the passport made with their headscarf on (even provided it doesn’t conceal the face and its shape). Such decision was voiced at another regular meeting of Interconfessional Advising Council at the Ombudsman for nationalities and...
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11/12/2014
SARY-SU, CRIMEA – Since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, armed men have shown up frequently to search the cinder-block houses, mosque and school in Sary-Su, a settlement of Crimean Tatars, a Muslim ethnic minority that has long suffered from discrimination in the peninsula, which is its historic...
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06/12/2014
Opponents of Russia's annexation are being abducted and killed amid reports of escalating human rights abuses.
Simferopol, Crimea - The men who abducted Seiran Zinetdinov must have been really tough. The bald, bull-necked and burly 33-year-old emanated the self-confidence of a man who has seen...
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28/11/2014
Borinya, Ukraine — Abdurrahman swept a small pile of breadcrumbs into his hand. Then he picked up the blanket that serves as prayer rug, dinner table and playground, shook it out at the window, and laid it again in the dorm room. He straightened the corners, readying it for the evening prayers he...
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25/11/2014
Tatars resisted Moscow’s annexation of the Black Sea peninsula in March, and the Muslim community has paid for it since.
Putilovka, Crimea — The search warrant accused Muslyadin Muslyadinov of killing a Ukrainian riot police officer, although the dozen armed masked men who surrounded his modest...
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14/10/2014
The Media started drawing parallels between Ukraine and Israel, HAMAS and DPR (self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic”) almost at the same time when Israel started bombing Gaza. How correct it is to draw such parallels, and what are the people who say so missing?
Three Israeli teenagers...
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14/10/2014
Ukrainians continue bringing flowers to the Dutch and Malaysian Embassies in sign of condolence, every day since the Boeing 777 crushed. They leave notes, light candles and cry. The tragedy touched each and every. President of Ukraine Mr.Perto Poroshenko also paid visits to these Embassies today....
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13/10/2014
Matter of integrating the Crimean tatars to Russian Islamic Society is one of the problems Russia is to face in the nearest future. Mr.Refat Chubarov, Head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, spoke about the consecution and perspectives of that process.Mr.Chubarov voiced his concerns about the possibility...
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24/09/2014
Since Russia invaded and annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in March, the situation of the Crimean Tatars has significantly deteriorated. They are in an increasingly perilous position with Russia and the illegal Crimean authorities engaged in a campaign of repression, persecution and harassment....
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18/09/2014
Yesterday Putin’s storm troops made a move on Crimean Tatars, a people whose claim on the peninsula predates the Russians’ by centuries.
Ever since the anschluss of the Crimea last March, the Tatars, who make up about 12 per cent of the population, have been on the receiving end of persecution.This...
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