Crimean Tatars, deported en masse by Josef Stalin in 1944 and subjected to Russian occupation 70 years later, have no ...

Russia’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but ...

This is how Tatars ended up in Poland, in the eastern province of Podlasie. The so-called Tatar Trail, comprising of a circle of cities – Białystok, Sokółka, Bohoniki, Krynki, Kruszyniany, Krynki and ...

The leader of the Crimean Tatars added that at first, he thanked Putin for the reception (Dzhemilev was on a visit to Moscow in March 2014 but did not meet with Putin) because he was received ...

The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.

For 600 years, the Podlasie region in north-eastern Poland – on the present-day border with Belarus and Lithuania – has been home to the Lipka Tatars, one of the oldest continuously existing Muslim ...

Last month, Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky unveiled a bill that he said was designed to help preserve the heritage of the tiny minority groups, plus the Tatars, a Muslim people. But by desi ...

The UNPO welcomes the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers’ decision urging Russia to immediately release all Ukrainian ...

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said it does not recognize russia's annexation of Crimea and reaffirms its support for Ukraine's ...

Crimea was home to Turkic-speaking Tatars when the Russian empire first annexed it in the 18th century. It briefly regained independence two centuries later before being swallowed by the Soviet Union.

The United Nations General Assembly, the United States and many other countries condemned the annexation, and the U.S. and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia over its moves. Few countries ...