SOCHI, Russia/SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - A Crimean Tatar leader condemned as "inhuman" an official ban on commemorations of Stalin's persecution of Tatars - hours after Russian President Vladimir ...

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, ...

Ukrainian authorities managed to bring back 10 civilians from Russian captivity on 28 June. Among them is Nariman Dzhelyal, Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, who was captured ...

The second-largest ethnic group in the modern Russian Federation, after the Russians, are the Tatars, Turkic-speaking Sunni Muslims who are indigenous to the Volga and Ural regions, including the ...

Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev has praised the Czech Republic after it adopted a resolution recognizing the deportation of Crimean Tatars by Soviet authorities in 1944 as genocide. In a ...

On the morning of 4 December, Russian security forces carried out a search of the home of Crimean Tatar researcher and journalist Lenora Dyulber in temporarily occupied Sudak, after which they took ...

A prominent Crimean Tatar leader has denounced Vladimir Putin for perpetuating Stalin's "genocidal policy" against his community. Crimea has remained under Russian occupation for 11 years, following ...