Riza Izetov, a Crimean Tatar human rights activist sentenced by a Russian court to 19 years in prison, has reported harsh ...

Soviet forces under Stalin’s orders deported nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars, the peninsula’s native population, to Central ...

This unfair and unjust war of choice inflicted by the Russian Federation in February of 2022 against Ukraine and its people ...

Russia must immediately release Ukrainian political prisoners, stop grave breaches of human rights and ethnic persecution in ...

Kyiv, Ukraine – Seventeen years in jail for “smuggling explosives” and “organising a diversion” to blow up a natural gas pipeline. That’s the sentence Nariman Dzhelyal, a Crimean Tatar ...

Elina Novokhatska at the ‘Memorial to the Genocide of the Crimean Tatars’ in Kyiv. Aqmescit is the native name of her hometown, Simferopol. Photo: Bradley Stafford. Elina Novokhatska was born in 1998 ...

The Committee called on Russia to end discrimination against and the persecution of Crimean Tatars, to ensure the right to education in Crimea in the Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian languages, to stop the ...

Three Crimean Tatar political prisoners, Remzi Memetov, Zevri Abseitov and Rustem Abiltarov, have been released after spending nine years in a Russian penal colony in connection with their alleged ...

RFE/RL contributor Vladyslav Yesypenko is one of 18 Ukrainian journalists from Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula held in ...

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe issued on Tuesday a set of decisions for the Russian authorities to follow concerning the situation in Crimea. The Committee of Ministers issued a ...

"The Russians understand we are actively discussing a third operation. There is a saying: 'God loves a trinity,'" said navy chief Oleksiy Neizhpapa.