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 ...

May 19 marks the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide - the day when back in 1944 (from May 18-20), ordered by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, at least 191k Crimean ...

Refat Chubarov, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, has strongly advised Russian citizens who are illegally present in temporarily occupied Crimea to leave the peninsula without ...

Tatar Activist Gets Suspended Sentence Over Anti-War Stance May 28, 2024 12:49 CET By RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service ...

A Human Rights Watch report in 2017 accused Russian authorities there of having “intensified persecution of Crimean Tatars… with the apparent goal of completely silencing dissent,” while the ...

Ukraine Dismisses Defense Minister, Calls for ‘New Approaches’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar Executive, as the country’s new defense minister.