Aqmescit is the native name of her hometown, Simferopol. Photo: Bradley Stafford. Elina Novokhatska was born in 1998 in a Crimea that existed as part of an independent Ukraine. A Crimean Tatar, she is ...

Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 and then backed pro-Russian separatists in an armed insurgency against Kyiv’s forces in the eastern Donbas region of ...

Stary Krym, in east Crimea, has an important history for the Crimean Tatars, Crimea’s indigenous Muslim, Turkic people. The oldest mosque in Crimea is located here, in what was the medieval capital of ...