When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered up to 200,000 soldiers into Ukraine, his aim was to sweep into the capital, ...

Putin had already seized Ukraine's Crimean peninsula eight years earlier ... Ten years earlier, his predecessor Stalin had deported Crimea's Tatar population, so the majority population was ...

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

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

The statement, released on the anniversary of the illegal "referendum," emphasizes the violation of international law and the need to protect the rights of Crimean Tatars. "On the anniversary of the ...

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

Putin has called Crimea “a sacred place,” and has prosecuted those who publicly argue it is part of Ukraine. Repressions against the Crimean Tatars continued under Putin, despite Moscow’s ...

The bespectacled, bearded Crimean Tatar community leader is a devout Muslim ... Rights groups say that in some prisons, schedules ban eating and leaving beds between 10pm and 6am, turning each ...

We will continue to closely monitor developments in Crimea, particularly the situation of the Crimean Tatar Turks, the Indigenous people of the peninsula, and we will keep them on the agenda of the ...

The Turkish ministry also added that the country will continue to closely monitor the developments in Crimea, in particular with regard to the Crimean Tatars. “We will continue to closely monitor ...