“People were terrified of us,” says Osmanov, who was part of the first wave of Crimean Tatars to return to the Crimean peninsula on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast during perestroika in the late ...

Shevchenko laughed as he recalled the episode over lunch at a Crimean Tatar restaurant in Kyiv, and said the president was apologetic as soon as the penny dropped. “He could see I was Tatar, ...

One of the most overlooked parts of Ukraine is its diversity. The Crimean Tatars – a national minority native to Crimea and recognized as an indigenous people of Ukraine – are a perfect example.

The Mejlis, the representative body of the Crimean Tatar people, will reject any international recognition of Russian-occupied Crimea as Russian territory, Refat Chubarov, the body's chairman ...

A Crimean Tatar couple in Ukraine, displaced by Russian troops, sees parallels to the Soviets' forced deportation of 200,000 Tatars from Crimea 80 years ago. Most Ukrainian Muslims are part of an ...

The commemorations for the 72nd anniversary marking the forceful deportations of Crimean Tatars during the Soviet era began on Thursday. The Ministry of Information Policy of Ukraine and the ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has tapped Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar, to become his next defense minister, replacing Oleksii Reznikov at a critical time for Ukraine’s counteroffensive.

Email me in English, Russian, Spanish or French. The Tatar people have lived in settlements all across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since the Middle Ages. The Tatars traditionally ...