Over 12 years of occupation of Crimea, the Russians have imprisoned almost 300 people on fabricated political charges, 159 of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Estonian parliament, the Riigikogu, on Wednesday officially recognized the mass deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union in 1944 as an act of genocide. The statement passed in the 101 ...