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

A painting of the Mongols' victory against the Russian army on the Kalka River on display in the office of the Spiritual ...

The only likely reason for holding Ruslan Mambetov incommunicado for over a month is that the FSB wanted to extract ...

However, there is still widespread sympathy among the Muslims of Russia for the Tatar-Mongol era, which has been revived in recent years thanks to increasingly close relations with China and the ...

After the occupation of Crimea, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin promised to resolve all the "problems" of the Crimean Tatars ...

When Moscow flew in thousands of soldiers and organised pro-Russian rallies in Crimea in February 2014, Tatar leaders immediately understood the danger. They knew how Moscow handled “extremism ...

A member of the group told Express.co.uk that they were actively seeking to build alliances with other Tatar groups inside Russia, in a bid to foment an ethnic uprising against Putin's regime.

Crimean Tatars prevented Moscow from staging a coup without open invasion 11 years ago and have faced savage repression ever ...