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 ...
BAKHCHYSARAI, Crimea—Guliver Altın loves old maps. He loves the crudely drawn outlines of continents and oceans, the regions of bright green and red and yellow—shapes and colors moving across the ages ...
When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of Crimea on March 18, he highlighted the area’s sacred history, invoking the tenth-century conversion of Vladimir the Great to ...
As Vladimir Putin’s forces wage a brutal war against Ukraine, the Crimean Tatars living in Russian-occupied Crimea and on the Ukrainian mainland feel particularly threatened by their historic enemy’s ...
When the world discusses Crimea, the conversation often begins and ends with the question: to whom does it belong? Left out of this binary is the voice of Crimea’s Indigenous people: the Crimean ...
Living Areas: Tatar ethnic people mainly inhabit northern Xinjiang, though a smaller number are found in the southern part of the region. Population: There are 4,900 Tatar residents in Xinjiang, ...
MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan -- Ethnic Tatars have lived for centuries in what is now the territory of Afghanistan. But they were never officially recognized among the dozens of ethnic and linguistic ...