Soviet forces under Stalin’s orders deported nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars, the peninsula’s native population, to Central ...
Elina Novokhatska at the ‘Memorial to the Genocide of the Crimean Tatars’ in Kyiv. Aqmescit is the native name of her hometown, Simferopol. Photo: Bradley Stafford. Elina Novokhatska was born in 1998 ...
There are currently 221 citizens of Ukraine in Russian prisons, 134 of them are Crimean Tatars, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said on the Day of Resistance to the Occupation of Crimea. "All ...
"Given that the Russian-speaking population is subject to pressure in certain countries, I can say I have more confidence in the future of Tatars in Crimea than in the future of Russians ...