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

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

"He was accused of assisting the economic blockade of Crimea, which began in 2015, and of participating in the Crimean Tatar battalion named after Noman Chelebidzhikhan," Chubarov wrote. Chubarov said ...

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 ...

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

Riza Izetov, a Crimean Tatar human rights activist sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment by a Russian court, has spoken of the harsh conditions in the Yakutsk penal colony where he has been repeatedly ...

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.