Interviews

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

Late at night on September 4, 2021, the Federal Security Service (FSB) officers burst into the Akhtem family’s apartment. It was not even midnight, and Akhtem and his wife had just gone to bed. The silence was shattered by screams and footsteps as armed men in balaclavas entered the room—more than ten of them

She was kidnapped at a bus stop in Koktebel and sentenced to almost seven years in prison. This is the story of a citizen journalist whose case contains zero details about explosive devices allegedly found in her eyeglass case—and a whole volume of references to her interviews in the media