Around 2 thousand Ukrainian nationals are demanding compensation from the State for property lost in Poland from 1944 to 1951 during the mass resettlement of Ukrainians from ethnic Ukrainian land to the territory of the Ukrainian SSR

Services and other remembrance measures have marked the anniversary of the beginning of the mass deportation of people from Western Ukraine to the North of Russia and Kazakhstan

A draft law has been registered in the Verkhovna Rada on procedure for reinstating the rights of the national groups deported under Stalin from Ukrainian territory. It proposes compensating people for the value of their lost property out of public funding

Delegates representing 162 Crimean Tatar civic and socio-political organizations from 12 countries have formed this international civic organization to be based in the Crimea

It is 65 years since the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homeland in the Crimea to Siberia, the Urals and Central Asia

You wonder whether this is not some kind of recurring nightmare where the authorities are incapable of grasping the obvious fact that we all need to be protected from any attempts to use hatred, lies and primitive labels to destabilize the country

The Directorate is convinced that the ruling will lead to a new string of court hearings dragging out the process of compelling the Simferopol City Council to conclude a lease agreement for land on which to build an Assembly [Soborna] Mosque

According to information issued by the Cabinet of Ministers’ Press Service, the Conceptual Framework should become the guide for state bodies when resolving issues of ethno-national development and regulating inter-ethnic relations.

17 years after independent Ukraine recognized that the Crimean Tatars must be able to return to their homeland, the problems remain considerable, and those out to fuel tension ever more active

Following the appeal publicly addressed to Russia’s leaders on 8 September by Vasvi Abduraimov, his Crimean Tartar organization Milli Fyrka [National Party] has announced that they have accepted his resignation

About a highly questionable appeal from a marginal Crimean Tatar group seeking Russian “defence” of their rights and the Russian media attention it has been given

According to the government website, the Law is aimed at ensuring the necessary conditions for return, settling, social adaptation and integration of people deported on ethnic grounds into Ukrainian society

The Mejilis of the Crimean Tatar people does not oppose a register to record State assistance provided, but any register must be well-thought out and the present plans are not far off taking fingerprints en masse

In Simferopol on the eve of the anniversary of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars which began i64 years ago on 18 May 1944 two thousand candles were lit in memory of the victims of that terrible crime

There are 427 Muslim cemeteries in the Crimea and the Crimean police have sent a letter to city and district administrations speaking of the need to find money to pay for civil security for the graveyards in cooperation with the local police

“Representatives of the UNHCR expressed strong concern over recent events in the Crimea, and how these are presented in a number of Crimean and nationwide media outlets”, the Mejilis states

The Acting Head of the Crimean Police has issued an order to place all Muslim cemeteries in the Crimea under guard. This was announced on Friday following the latest attack on a cemetery near Simferopol

Another Muslim cemetery in the Crimea, this time in the settlement of Chistenke near Simferopol, was desecrated in the morning of Friday 11 April

According to member of the executive committee of the Alushta Regional Mejilis Emir Voyenny, who witnessed the eviction, 16 families were evicted from their homes

Police suspect people linked with the Cossack unit “Sobol” to be behind the major attack on a Muslim Cemetery of the Nizhnyohirske settlement in the Crimea