where Moscow’s “counter-terrorist operation” morphed into a war, analysts said. “There is no counter-terrorist operation because the Tatars’ resistance is essentially non-violent.

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

Crimean Tatars, deported en masse by Josef Stalin in 1944 and subjected to Russian occupation 70 years later, have no ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to retake the Crimean Peninsula after Russia’s seizure exactly 11 years ago ...

The first Tatars came to Poland in the 14th century when Vytautas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, offered them asylum in appreciation for their military services during the war against the Teutonic ...

The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.

Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...

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, ...

Repressions against the Crimean Tatars continued under Putin ... when Putin recognized the two war-torn Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states and several days later ...

The United Nations General Assembly, the United States and many other countries condemned the annexation, and the U.S. and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia over its moves. Few countries ...