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 ...

The Islamic month of Ramadan ends this coming weekend. Most Muslims in Ukraine are Crimean Tatars, natives of the Crimean ...

The holy month of Ramadan ends this coming weekend. It’s a month when many Muslims refrain from eating and drinking from just before sunrise to sunset. Most Muslims in Ukraine are Crimean Tatars, ...

“Recognition of occupied Crimea as Russian territory would be a blow primarily to Ukraine’s own interests,” says Nariman Dzhelyal, a prominent Crimean Tatar journalist, activist and ...

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

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 ...