Crimea was home to Turkic-speaking Tatars when the Russian empire first annexed it in the 18th century. It briefly regained independence two centuries later before being swallowed by the Soviet Union.

Seventeen Cubans were apprehended on March 21 in Crimea, a region of Ukraine overtaken by Russia in 2014 and currently under ...

Yoel Gallart Villalobos (born June 19, 1979) has been held in a deportation center in Gulkévichi, located in the ...

The Tatars were deported en masse by Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the end of World War Two for alleged collaboration with the Nazis. Crimea became part of Russia within the Soviet Union until ...

In 1944, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin deported nearly 200,000 Tatars, or about a third of Crimea’s population, to Central Asia, 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) to the east. Stalin had accused ...

Russia's illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but it sent Moscow's relations with the West into a downward spiral ...

The Tatars were deported en masse by Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the end of World War Two for alleged collaboration with the Nazis. Crimea became part of Russia within the Soviet Union until ...

Crimea Has Been a Battleground and a Playground. Why It's Coveted by Both Russia and Ukraine Russia's seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was ...

In 1944, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin deported nearly 200,000 Tatars, or about a third of Crimea’s population, to Central Asia, 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) to the east. Stalin had accused ...

In 1944, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin deported nearly 200,000 Tatars, or about a third of Crimea's population, to Central ...