Comprising about 12 percent of Crimea's population, these ethnic Sunni Muslims have a long, troubled history with Moscow. People hold Crimean Tatar flags at a rally near the parliament building in ...

When Ukrainian Leniie Umerova crossed into Russia on her way to see her ailing father in their native Crimea in late 2022, ...

Crimea is about 60 percent ethnic Russian, 25 percent ethnic Ukrainian, and 12 percent Crimean Tatar — a predominantly Muslim group that was forcibly removed from Crimea en masse by Soviet ...

Crimea, which juts out into the Black Sea off southern Ukraine, was absorbed into the Russian Empire along with most ethnic Ukrainian territory by Catherine the Great in the 18th century.

Nikita Khrushchev used Crimea to change the ethnic make-up of Ukraine and thereby undermine western Ukrainian nationalism. Culturally, Crimea was a bad fit in Soviet Ukraine.

But what has drawn the most notice is Umerov's ethnic background as a Crimean Tatar, representing an often-overlooked part of Ukraine's Indigenous history.

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Most Ukrainian Muslims are part of an ethnic group, the Crimean Tatars. And they left their ancestral home in the southern peninsula of Crimea after Russia invaded and occupied ...

In years past, people flocked to Black Sea beaches on Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. Now, as Russia’s war on Ukraine enters its 18th month, the peninsula is both a playground and a battleground.

Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula was invaded by Russia in 2014 and illegally annexed from Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, ... Ukraine's 2001 census showed around 58% were ethnic Russian, 24% ethnic Ukrainian and 12% Tatars. ECONOMY.