Crimean Tatars
90,000 Crimean Tatars remain in Exile on 66th anniversary of their deportation by Stalin
May 19, 2010By Paul Goble Today, Crimean Tatars and their friends and supporters marked the 66th anniversary of Stalin’s brutal deportation of that nationality on completely false charges that the Crimean Tatars had collaborated with the Germans, a deportation...
Crimean Tatar groups in Germany appeal to Ukrainian president
May 15, 2010Crimean Tatar organizations in Germany have sent an open letter to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych urging him to "protect Crimea's indigenous people from discrimination," RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports. In their letter, the authors...
Crimean Tatar issue "lost" in Russia-Ukraine deal over Sevastopol
May 04, 2010Paul Goble Unless Crimean Tatar Issue is Addressed, Sevastopol Base Agreement May Not Remain the Victory Many in Moscow Think, Markedonov Says Moscow is celebrating its Sevastopol accord with Kyiv as “a victory … over the West,&rdquo...
Crimean Tatar leader: Crimea’s stability under threat
March 18, 2010By Paul Goble Mustafa Cemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatar national movement, warned the European Parliament that the situation in his homeland is increasingly fragile in the wake of the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 and the recent...
Ukraine: New Crimean Tatar women’s journal highlights revival of reformist Islam
March 07, 2010By Paul Goble A Crimean Tatar journal for women launched this week represents the latest development in a trend that has attracted relatively little attention: the revival especially among the Tatars and other Muslim groups in Russia of the principles...
Is Kyiv Preparing to Change Course on the Crimean Tatars?
July 03, 2009By Paul Goble Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has asked prosecutors to consider opening a criminal case against those who deported the Crimean Tatars and other ethnic groups from Crimea in 1944, an apparent response to a Crimean Tatar hunger...
Crimean Tatars expose Russian sensitivity to its Soviet past
June 24, 2009By Taras Kuzio President Viktor Yushchenko has strongly condemned the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars on many occasions and ordered the Security Service (SBU) to open a special investigative unit examining crimes against humanity committed by the...