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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KIEV, Ukraine - Several hundred people marched in Ukraine's capital Sunday to commemorate the brutal deportation 70 years ago of Crimea's entire population of Tatars, while about 20,000 members of the ...

After Dagestan, Tatarstan has the highest number of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine. The Tatar authorities support Putin. Tatars in exile want to bring the Russian president to an international ...

Tatars, though, having been screwed repeatedly by the state, ended up far better prepared for the end of communism. When they returned to Crimea, there was no land for them, so they squatted and built ...

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 ...

This article first appeared on the Atlantic Council site. In the two years since Russia illegally annexed Crimea, Crimean Tatars have faced the brunt of the de facto authorities' brutality. On April ...

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 ...