Vladimir Putin speaking during a concert in Moscow’s Red Square to mark the 10th anniversary of Crimea’s reunification with Russia.
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Since annexing Crimea ten years ago, Putin has set out to destroy non-Russian identities on the peninsular.
Activist Sair Smedlja stands in front of the Crimean Tatar self-governing assembly (the Mejlis) which was closed down when the Russians occupied Crimea.
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A spokesman claims that Crimean Tatars who are arrested by their Russian occupiers are beaten and tortured.
Nebuchadnezzar – William Blake (c.1805). Tate Britain.
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A Ukrainian soldier on territory recaptured from Russia in July 2023.
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Russian president Vladimir Putin visits the Kerch bridge linking Russian-occupied Crimea with the Russian mainland, after an attack damaged it.
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About 100,000 Crimean Tatars died as part of a massive deportation of these people by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin towards the end of the second world war.
Crimean Tatars gathered for a rally commemorating the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s mass deportation, in Simferopol, Crimea, on May 18, 2014.
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A scholar who spent many years living with the Crimean Tatars explains their long history of persecution.