Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most overlooked parts of Ukraine is its diversity. The Crimean Tatars – a national minority native to Crimea and ...

An elderly woman cries at a rally of the Crimean Tatars in downtown Simferopol at an anniversary of Stalin's deportations.Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty When Shevket Osmanov moved to his family ...

For Lia Gazi, a 24-year-old Crimean Tatar activist in exile, the second half of May each year signifies both personal and ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Erfan Kudusov fled Crimea with his wife and four children after Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula in 2014, along with many other Crimean Tatars who resented ...

There is the high road and there is the low road for outside supplicants in the European Union. Both roads lead to Brussels. The high road takes in the capitals of the larger of the 27 EU member ...

SIMFEROPOL, Crimea -- Khatidzhe, an elderly Tatar woman living in a small, shabby house in the suburbs of the Crimean capital, admits she suffers from the occasional memory lapse in her old age. But ...

Last week, Lilya Budjurova, the host of a political talk show at Crimea’s only independent television station, prepared to dedicate her program to the seventieth anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of ...

KYIV, Ukraine, June 8 (UNHCR) - The Izetov family could rival any legislator, politician or lawyer in their knowledge of Ukraine's Citizenship Law and procedures, despite spending decades in forced ...

The deportation of at least 240,000 Crimean Tatars to central Asia by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1944 is forever ingrained in the memory of the people of that region. Stalin used claims, later ...

The minority in the country counts 4.7 million individuals: in 2010 there were 5.3 million. Also declining in the original regions. Ethnic Russians in Tatarstan are growing. Use was made of the ...

At first, Rustem Kadyrov could barely make out the mark outside his house, in the Crimean town of Bakhchysarai, but it filled him with terror. It was an X, cut deep ...