By Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) -When Ukrainian Leniie Umerova crossed into Russia on her way to see her ailing father ...

President Donald Trump seemed confident he could quickly end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But more than 150 days into his ...

Leniie Umerova, a Crimean Tatar, recounts her ordeal of being detained by Russia for nearly two years. Her story highlights the generational trauma faced by Crimean Tatars following Russia's ...

The history of the Crimean Tatars has taught them to tread carefully. Periods of persecution and exodus, mainly at Russian hands, have characterized the Muslim ethnic minority’s story from at ...

"Crimean Tatars don't sleep at night because they are on watch near their villages," said Seiran Ismagilov, 23. The leader of the Crimean Tatar community, Refat Chubarov, ...

When Crimean Tatars officially returned from Central Asia in 1989, they couldn't claim their old homes or land. Instead, they build on vacant land and some gradually gained legal title (samazahvat).

This, Crimean Tatars told me, is precisely why pressure is growing for them to turn their back on Kiev. Over the past week, Moscow has sent a series of delegations to meet with the leaders of the ...

People hold Crimean Tatar flags at a rally near the parliament building in Simferopol on February 26, 2014. Many Crimean Tatars plan to boycott the referendum on rejoining Russia.

The Crimean Tatars are known for a history of nonviolent resistance, and Dzhemilev is a recipient of the UNHCR Nansen medal for his decades of peaceful struggle for the rights of the Crimean Tatars.

For Crimean Tatars, a Muslim minority group that returned to their ancestral home in Crimea after 1989, the Russian annexation in March 2014 was a hard blow. Three years later, the European Union ...

Leniie Umerova, a member of the Crimean Tatar community indigenous to the Black Sea peninsula that was annexed from Ukraine ...

Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula was invaded by Russia in 2014 and illegally annexed from Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com ...