Interviews

A researcher talks about how to preserve the war stories and how to deal with losses

On October 10, 2017, as he returned home, Asanov leaned close to his four-year-old daughter, Safiye, inhaling the familiar scent of her dark hair. He whispered, “I feel for those who have been deprived of their freedom. I want every prisoner to embrace their children and feel their scent as soon as possible”

On a piece of white sheet, he drew with a black pen the wagons in which the Crimean Tatars were deported from Crimea. On each of them are written the years of deportation: 1944 and 2014

The historian on Maidan as a wonder that fosters hope and faith in humanity

Two art historians, Halyna Hleba and Veronika Skliarova, have observed and analyzed key developments in the Ukrainian cultural landscape over the past decade

A researcher talks about documenting the war and the fact that it is necessary to testify about Ukraine primarily from within the country

Saliyev found himself at his first protest campaign when he was only seven months old. Things like this happen when your mother is an activist in the Crimean Tatar national movement advocating for the return of her people to their homeland

As his letters reveal, he’s also inspired by the sense of continuity in his struggle. He knows that his grandparents and parents fought for the cause in exile, and he now continues the fight side-by-side with his own generation