Jul 10, 2019 By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police detained seven Crimean Tatars on Moscow’s Red Square on Wednesday after dispersing a demonstration that had aimed to […]
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Crimean Tatars fear the Kremlin, after annexation, is chipping away at identity of the 250,000-strong Muslim ethnicity. by Mansur Mirovalev 18 Feb 2018 Russia’s restoration of the Big Khan Mosque […]
Since annexation many ethnic Tatar activists have been detained in outdated mental institutions, rights activists say Madeline Roache Tuesday 28 March 2017 Lawyers and human rights activists say Russian authorities […]
The Crimea Complex: A Crisis of Identity Where East Meets West By Erich Follath Yuri Kozyrev / DER SPIEGEL It’s been two years since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Since then, President Vladimir Putin has been cheered for liberating the peninsula and scorned for usurping it — depending on who […]
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA, ASSOCIATED PRESS UROZHAYNE, Crimea — Feb 15, 2016 Elnara Asanova lives alone with her four small children because her husband, an ethnic Tatar, is in jail. Last April, when she was seven months pregnant, police grabbed him from the streets of their village because he had taken […]
By Thomas J. Reese and Daniel I. Mark “Our people survived [deportation by] Stalin,” commented a manager of ATR, which, until April 1, was the only Crimean Tatar television station left. “Will they not survive these current problems?” Russian authorities had just shut it down—along with other media outlets—by refusing […]
By Thomas J. Reese and Daniel I. Mark “Our people survived [deportation by] Stalin,” commented a manager of ATR, which, until April 1, was the only Crimean Tatar television station left. “Will they not survive these current problems?” Russian authorities had just shut it down—along with other media outlets—by refusing […]
By Tom Parfitt, Crimea3:57PM BST 06 Oct 2014 This spring, two tragedies hit Ilmi Umerov in one week. First his father died suddenly after a short illness. Then his homeland […]
ALEXANDER WINNING BAKHCHISARAY, Crimea (Reuters) – Seventy years after their families’ mass deportation under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the Crimean Tatars are in a quandary: should they cooperate with their homeland’s new Russian authorities or resist them? Some Tatars – Sunni Muslims of Turkic origin – fear a return to […]
LVIV — There’s a commotion in Room 312 of Lviv’s social services department, where over 50 Crimean Tatars are crowded into the small space — families with children, older married couples, students. All of them fled Crimea in March and headed for this western Ukrainian city. by Andre Eichhofer Worldcrunch […]
OnIslam & News Agencies Sunday, 30 March 2014 00:00 The latest move by Crimean Muslim Tatar was expected to face Russian pressures, amid moves by Moscow to convince the minority to drop their opposition BAKHCHISARAY – Crimea’s indigenous Muslim Tatars have taken the first steps towards seeking autonomy for the […]
by Frédéric Burnand in Geneva, swissinfo.ch March 16, 2014 – 10:31 With the future status of Crimea still uncertain, Switzerland is making the most of its good standing with Moscow to impose the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as the mediator between Russia and Western nations. Swiss President and […]
STORY SUMMARY March 14, 2014 12:07 By David Ignatius The Daily Star, Lebanon It’s still possible to imagine a fuzzy, face-saving compromise in Ukraine: Crimea would have a new, quasi-autonomous administrative status blessed by Moscow and Kiev. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will make one more try, seeing […]
French and British warships of the Allied fleet begin their attack on the city of Sevastopol, the base of the Russian Tsar’s Black Sea fleet, during the Crimean War, October 1854. (Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In the 1850s, Russia fought a bloody war against Britain, France and other nations. […]
Crimean War From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Crimean War (disambiguation). Crimean War Part of Ottoman wars in Europe and the Russo-Turkish wars Detail of Franz Roubaud‘s panoramic painting The Siege of Sevastopol (1904) Date October 1853 – February 1856 Location Crimean Peninsula, Caucasus, Balkans,Black Sea, Baltic Sea, White Sea, Far East Result Allied victory, Treaty of Paris Belligerents French Empire British Empire […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has his eyes on Crimea (Keystone) swissinfo.ch and agencies March 12, 2014 – 19:49 Swiss President Didier Burkhalter, in his capacity as chairman of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin about how to […]
Continue reading the main story In an emotional speech in Kiev on Sunday, former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky – recently released from 10 years in jail – told the Maidan “there is another Russia”, one opposed to military action in Ukraine. Russian writer and broadcaster Andrei Ostalski agrees […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Share 182 85 4 For some reason, our last century’s two world wars started rather far from home. I bet that most people in January 1914 couldn’t find Sarajevo on a map. But then again, how many of us – really, I […]
Tatarstan’s President Rustam Minnikhanov (right) in Simferopol on March 5. March 05, 2014 The president of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, and the pro-Russian prime minister of Ukraine’s Crimea, Serhiy Aksyonov, have signed an agreement on cooperation. Minnikhanov told journalists after the signing ceremony […]
