When Shevket Osmanov moved to his family homeland in 1987 after spending all his life in Uzbekistan, the welcome he received was less than effusive. “People were terrified of us,” says Osmanov, who ...

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 ...

Over 12 years of occupation of Crimea, the Russians have imprisoned almost 300 people on fabricated political charges, 159 of ...

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 ...

All this week we're reporting from Crimea. The Vermont-sized peninsula on the Black Sea was forcibly taken from Ukraine by Russia earlier this year, and when borders change, so do lives. The takeover ...

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 ...

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 ...

UROZHAYNE, Crimea – Elnara Asanova lives alone with her four small children because her husband, an ethnic Tatar, is in jail. Last April, when she was seven months pregnant, police grabbed him from ...

On an autumn evening on a highway between Simferopol and Belogorsk, a white van pulled up next to two young Crimean Tatar men who were walking on the street. Several unknown men jumped out and pushed ...

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 ...