The Crimean Tatar flag was first adopted by the First Kurultai of the Crimean Tatars in 1917 and renewed by the Second Kurultai, held on June 26-30, 1991. The Day of the Crimean Tatar Flag has ...

Every year on 26 June, the Day of the Crimean Tatar Flag is celebrated in Ukraine. This is a blue flag with a yellow coat of arms – taraq tamga, which is more than 100 years old. It symbolises the ...

They look fierce: green balaclavas cover most of their face, hiding their identity, but their Russian flag patches reveal ... of the so-called Russian Republic of Crimea. The replacement of ...

With their ancestral homeland at the heart of future peace talks with Russia, Crimean Tatars are fighting to keep their language and practices alive in Ukraine, teaching some children who have never, ...

The Russian-appointed "authority" of the occupied Crimea has banned the raising of the Crimean Tatar flag at gatherings in schools. Source: Krym SOS ("Crimea SOS") NGO Details: The activists report ...

Also, the National Flag has been hoisted once again in the Ukrainian Crimea,” the statement continued. “All objectives and tasks were fulfilled. As the special operation was completed ...

Ukrainian special forces made a surprise amphibious raid into occupied Crimea on Thursday. Kyiv's military intelligence agency said its troops engaged with Russians and raised a flag there.

Washington-brokered negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine have largely boiled down to a diamond-shaped peninsula about the size of Massachusetts. Crimea had been contested for centuries by ...

Is that true? No. Before the annexation, Crimea was part of independent Ukraine, known as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the only self-governing region within unitary Ukraine. The peninsula ...