A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends ...

You can be a Crimean Tatar, you can be a Gagauz from near the ... Step by step, we are making our mark on the global gastronomic map." ...

Why not, they thought, try and finally put this overlooked music scene on the global map? Behind the collection ... Made up of exiled Crimean Tatars, the group was active in the banned rights ...

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

Rustem Virati, a 60-year-old Crimean Tatar who was imprisoned by the Russians for eight years, has died in a penal colony in the city of Dmitrovgrad, Russia’s Ulyanovsk Oblast. Source: Refat Chubarov, ...

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.

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.

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 ...