Crimean Tatars - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Crimean Tatars: Encyclopedia - Crimean Tatars
The Crimean Tatars (Qırımtatar (aka Qırım, Qırımlı and Qırım türkü), Pl. Qırımtatarlar (aka Qırımlar, Qırımlılar, Qır�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean Tatars: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean Tatars - History
Crimean Tatars are descendants of Turkic (Bulgars, Khazars, Petchenegs and Kypchaks) and non-Turkic (Scythians, Sarmatians, Cimmerians, A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean Tatar Diaspora: Encyclopedia - Crimean Tatar Diaspora
The Crimean Tatar diaspora dates back to the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 1783, after which Crimean Tatars were forced to emigrate i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cumans: Encyclopedia - Cumans
Cumans, also called as Polovtsy, (Russian Половцы, from old Slavic for pale yellowish) was the European name for the Western Kipch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimea: Encyclopedia - Crimea
   total    density    urban 2,000,192 77/km 62.8% The Crimea /kraɪˈmia/ is a peninsula and an autonomou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1571: Encyclopedia - 1571
1571 - Events. January 11 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion. January 23 - The Royal Exchange opens in London. Crimean...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimea: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimea - History
Crimea - Early History. The earliest inhabitants of whom we have any authentic traces were the Cimmerians, who were expelled by the Scy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimea: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimea - History
Crimea - Early History. The earliest inhabitants of whom we have any authentic traces were the Cimmerians, who were expelled by the Scy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cumans: Encyclopedia Ii - Cumans - History
They invaded Southern Ukraine, Moldova, Wallachia and part of Transylvania in the 11th century and from here they continued their plunder...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1944: Encyclopedia - 1944
1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). 1944 - Events. January 4 - The Battle of Monte ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean Tatar Diaspora: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean Tatar Diaspora - Experiences In Exile Within The Ottoman Empire
There have been continuously members of Tatar nobility in the Ottoman Empire, due to close relations between the two states. There was a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unrepresented Nations And Peoples Organisation: Encyclopedia - Unrepresented Nations And Peoples Organisation
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is a democratic, international organization. Its members are indigenous peoples...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vorotynsky: Encyclopedia - Vorotynsky
Vorotynsky was one of the most eminent Rurikid princely houses of Muscovite Russia. Their lands lay principally in the Upper Oka region a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yalta Conference: Encyclopedia - Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from February...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collective Punishment: Encyclopedia - Collective Punishment
Collective punishment is a term describing the punishment of a group of people for the crime of a few or even of one. It is contradictory...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean-congo Hemorrhagic Fever: Encyclopedia - Crimean-congo Hemorrhagic Fever
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a widespread tick-borne viral disease, a zoonosis of domestic animals and wild animals, that ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukraine: Encyclopedia - Ukraine
Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна, Ukrayina, /ukraˈjina/) is a country in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the northeast, Belarus t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean Khanate: Encyclopedia - Crimean Khanate
The Crimean Khanate (Khanate of Crimea; Crimean Tatar: Qırım Hanlığı; Russian: Крымское ханство [Krymskoe khanstvo]; ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean Karaites: Encyclopedia - Crimean Karaites
The Crimean Karaites (sometimes known as Karaim) are a Karaite Jewish community of Eastern Europe. Originally centered in the Crimean Pen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimea: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimea - Geography
The Crimea borders the Kherson region from the North; the rest of the border is the Black Sea in the South and West and the Sea of Azov i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bulgaria: Encyclopedia - Bulgaria
The Republic of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Република България), or Bulgaria, is a country in the southeast of Europe. It borde...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean Tatar Diaspora: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean Tatar Diaspora - Diaspora Within The Eastern Bloc And Elsewhere
The Crimean Tatar diaspora community in Romania, today numbering nearly 40,000, had been a very vibrant one until the beginning of the co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cumans: Encyclopedia Ii - Cumans - Legacy
While the Cumans were assimilated, their name can still be seen in placenames such as the city of Kumanovo in Macedonia, Comăneşti in M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean Tatar Diaspora: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean Tatar Diaspora - Recent Challenges
The main challenges to the Crimean Tatar diaspora in the 1990s were the erosion of ethnic identity as a result of swift modernization of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exile: Encyclopedia - Exile
Exile is a form of punishment. It means to be away from one's home (i.e. city, state or country) while either being explicitly refused pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean War: Encyclopedia - Crimean War
The Crimean War lasted from 28 March 1854 until 1856 and was fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance of the United Kingdom, France...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimea: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimea - Geography
The Crimea borders the Kherson region from the North; the rest of the border is the Black Sea in the South and West and the Sea of Azov i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean Tatar Diaspora: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean Tatar Diaspora - The End Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of Modern Turkey
With the shrinking of the Ottoman Empire in the last quarter of the 19th century, once again the majority of the Crimean Tatars in Dobrud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean War: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean War - The War
Crimean War - Beginning of the war. A new conflict was ostensibly provoked during the 1850s by an obscure religious dispute. Under trea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unrepresented Nations And Peoples Organisation: Encyclopedia Ii - Unrepresented Nations And Peoples Organisation - Members
in the AMERICAS Buffalo River Dene Nation Lakota (Dakota or Sioux Indians) Mapuche Nahuals del Alto Balsas Nuxálk in AFRICA Cabinda B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Volga German: Encyclopedia Ii - Volga German - The Twentieth Century
After the Russian Revolution, the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Autonome Sozialistische Sowjet-Republik der Wolga-De...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern Dobruja: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern Dobruja - History
At the beginning of the modern era, Southern Dobruja had a mixed population of Bulgarians and Turks with several smaller minorities, incl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - May 18: Encyclopedia Ii - May 18 - Births
May 18 - 1048 to 1899. 1048 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet (d. 1123) 1186 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218) 1474 - I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Krymchak: Encyclopedia Ii - Krymchak - Origins
They are probably partially descended from Jewish colonists who settled along the Black Sea in ancient times. Jewish communities existed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dobruja: Encyclopedia Ii - Dobruja - History
Main article: History of Dobruja In antiquity Dobruja was inhabited by Geto-Dacians, as well as by Celts. A number of Greek colonies were...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Military History Of Imperial Russia: Encyclopedia Ii - Military History Of Imperial Russia - Napoleonic Wars And The Decembrists' Revolt
As a major European power, Russia could not escape the wars involving revolutionary and Napoleonic France. Paul became an adamant opponen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flags Of Non-sovereign Nations: Encyclopedia Ii - Flags Of Non-sovereign Nations - Africa
Flag of Ashante People Flag of Barotseland Flag of the Batwa Flag of Bioko Flag of Buganda Flag of Caprivi Flag of Casamance Flag of Ewe ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin - Greece
Names of many Greek dances may be found spelt either ending with -o or with -os. This is due to the fact that the word for "dance" in Gre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Stalin: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Stalin - Stalin And Changes In Soviet Society
Joseph Stalin - Industrialization. Main article: Industrialization of the USSR. The Russian Civil War and War communism had a devastati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berdychiv: Encyclopedia Ii - Berdychiv - History
In 1430, Great Knight of Lithuania Vitautas (великий князь литовский Витовт) granted the rights over the area ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vorotynsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Vorotynsky - The Vorotynskys And Ivan The Terrible
Ivan Mikhailovich had three sons, all of whom played a part in Muscovite politics as boyars and voivods. The eldest of these, Prince Vlad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Kazakhstan: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Kazakhstan - Background
By far the largest of the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union, independent Kazakhstan is the world's ninth-largest nation ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Dobruja: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Dobruja - Modern Age
The Constanţa-Cernavoda railroad was opened in 1860. The centuries of Ottoman rule led to the colonisation of Dobruja with Turks and to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Moldova: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Moldova - Medieval History
The greatest Moldavian prince was Ştefan cel Mare, or Stefan the Great (ruled 1457-1504). With his army of boyars and retainers, Stefan ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Autonomous Oblast: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Autonomous Oblast - History
Jewish Autonomous Oblast - Early history. In prehistoric times the Amur River region was sparsely inhabited by independent tribes (nota...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukraine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukraine - History
Human settlement in the territory of Ukraine has been documented into distant prehistory. The late neolithic Trypillian culture flourishe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean Tatar Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean Tatar Language - Number Of Speakers
Today there are over 300,000 Crimean Tatar speakers. Until 1989, 90% of the Crimean Tatars lived in the Fergana Valley within Uzbekistan,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Russo-turkish Wars: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Russo-turkish Wars - The 19th Century
Fringe territories were lost to Russia in the north. but more importantly the Empire began to fall behind technologically compared to the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Golden Horde: Encyclopedia Ii - Golden Horde - Golden Age
The Horde quickly lost its Mongol identity. While the descendants of Batu's original Mongol warriors constituted the upper class of socie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exile: Encyclopedia Ii - Exile - History
Exile has a long tradition as a form of punishment. It has been known in Ancient Rome, where the Roman Senate had the power to exile indi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shuisky: Encyclopedia Ii - Shuisky - The Regency
Vasily's grand nephew, Prince Vasily Vasilievich Nemoy ("the Mute") was Vasily III's taciturn aide-de-camp who accompanied him on every m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Ukraine: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Ukraine - Christmas Traditions
At Christmas time there is a custom on the night of Christmas Eve to have a twelve-course meal, symbolic of the twelve apostles. This mea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Total War: Encyclopedia Ii - Total War - Total War And Its Precursors
Total war - The French Revolution. The French Revolution has introduced some of the concepts of total war. The fledgling republic found...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Khazars: Encyclopedia Ii - Khazars - Late References To The Khazars
There is debate as to the temporal and geographic extent of Khazar polities following Sviatoslav's sack of Atil in 967/9, or even whether...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean Karaites: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean Karaites - During The Holocaust
Their status under Russian imperial rule bore beneficial fruits for the Karaim decades later. In 1934, the heads of the Karaite community...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean Khanate: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean Khanate - Early Rulers
The Crimean Khanate was founded when certain clans of the Golden Horde Empire, ceased their nomadic life in the Desht-i Kipchak(today's U...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Russian History 1682-1796: Encyclopedia Ii - Russian History 1682-1796 - Peter The Great And The Russian Empire
Peter I, a child of the second marriage of Tsar Aleksey, was at first relegated to the political background, as various court factions st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dobruja: Encyclopedia Ii - Dobruja - History
Main article: History of Dobruja In antiquity Dobruja was inhabited by Geto-Dacians, as well as by Celts. A number of Greek colonies were...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean-congo Hemorrhagic Fever: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean-congo Hemorrhagic Fever - Epidemiology
Sporadic infection of people is usually caused by Hyalomma tick bite. Clusters of illness typically appear after people treat, butcher or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Involuntary Settlements In The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - Involuntary Settlements In The Soviet Union - Exile Settlements
Exile settlements (ссыльное поселение, ssylnoye poselenie) were a kind of internal exile. The system of political and ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bulgaria: Encyclopedia Ii - Bulgaria - History
Main article: History of Bulgaria In the late 7th century a branch of the Bulgars led by Khan Asparuh migrated into the northern Balkans,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samizdat: Encyclopedia Ii - Samizdat - History In The Ussr
Self-published and self-distributed literature has a long history, but samizdat is a unique phenomenon in the post-Stalin USSR and other ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Volga Tatars: Encyclopedia Ii - Volga Tatars - Kazan Qazan Tatars
The majority of Volga Tatars are Kazan (Qazan) Tatars. They are the main and indigenious population of Tatarstan. During the 11-16th cent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tatars: Encyclopedia Ii - Tatars - European Tatars
The discrimination of the separate stems included under the name is still far from complete. The following subdivisions, however, may be ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kipchaks: Encyclopedia Ii - Kipchaks - History
Nomadic East Turkic people, known in Russian as Polovtsi, coming from the region of the River Irtysh, conquered southern Russia in the 11...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean War: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean War - The War
Crimean War - Beginning of the war. In the 1840s, Palmerston and other British leaders expressed fears of Russian encroachment upon Ind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean War: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean War - The War
Crimean War - Beginning of the war. A new conflict was ostensibly provoked during the 1850s by an obscure religious dispute. Under trea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurultai: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurultai - Modern Usage
Various modern Turkic peoples use it in political or administrative sense, as a synonym for parliament, congress, council, assembly, conv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Russo-turkish War 1735-1739: Encyclopedia Ii - Russo-turkish War 1735-1739 - The Course Of The War In 1735-1738
The casus belli was the raids of the Crimean Tatars on Ukraine in the end of 1735 and the Crimean khan's military campaign in the Caucasu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Wars And Disasters By Death Toll: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Wars And Disasters By Death Toll - Deaths Caused By Humans
List of wars and disasters by death toll - War and military action. These figures include deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Turkic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Turkic Peoples - Religion
Various pre-Islamic Turkic civilizations of the 6th century were Shamanist and Tengriist. The Shamanist religion is based on spiritual an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Rise To Power
Beria was born, the son of a peasant, in Merkheuli, near Sukhumi in the Abkhazian region of Georgia. He was educated at a technical schoo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Vaslui: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Vaslui - Preparations For The War
Battle of Vaslui - The Ottomans. Mehmed ordered his great general, Suleiman Pasha, to end the siege of Iskenderiye fortress (Shkodër),...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demographics Of Russia: Encyclopedia Ii - Demographics Of Russia - Ethnic Groups
The Russian Federation is home to as many as 160 different ethnic groups and indigenous peoples. As of the 2002 census, 79.83% of the pop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exile: Encyclopedia Ii - Exile - History
Exile has a long tradition as a form of punishment. It has been known in Ancient Rome, where the Roman Senate had the power to exile indi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Population Transfer In The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - Population Transfer In The Soviet Union - Transfers Of Ethnicities
The wholesale removal of potentially trouble-making ethnic groups was a technique used consistently by Joseph Stalin during his career: P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Galitzine: Encyclopedia Ii - Galitzine - Vasily Vasilievich Galitzine
Prince Vasily Vasilievich (1643-1714) was probably the greatest Russian statesman of the 17th century. He spent his early days at the cou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yalta Conference: Encyclopedia Ii - Yalta Conference - Conference
It was a continuation of the series of meetings begun at the Casablanca Conference (January 14 to 24, 1943) although the meetings can be ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1944: Encyclopedia Ii - 1944 - Events
1944 - World War II. January 4 - The Battle of Monte Cassino begins. January 5 - Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munk. January 14 - T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religion In The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - Religion In The Soviet Union - Policy Toward Religions In Practice
Since coming to power in 1917, the Soviet regime has failed to develop and apply a consistent and lasting policy toward nationalities and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean Tatar Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean Tatar Language - History Dialects And Alphabet
The spoken language of the Crimean Tatars has existed since the 13th century, and consists of three main dialects: "Kypchak-Tatar" from t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crimean War: Encyclopedia Ii - Crimean War - Characteristics Of The War
The war became infamously known for military and logistical incompetence, epitomised by the Charge of the Light Brigade which was immorta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Vaslui: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Vaslui - The Battle
The invading army entered Moldavia in December 1474. Ştefan had instituted a scorched earth policy in order to inflict fatigue on the Ot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religion In The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - Religion In The Soviet Union - Catholic
Catholics accounted for a substantial and active religious body in the Soviet Union. Their number increased dramatically with the annexat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religion In The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - Religion In The Soviet Union - Protestant
Various Protestant religious groups, according to Western sources, collectively had as many as 5 million followers in the 1980s. Evangeli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religion In The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - Religion In The Soviet Union - Orthodox
Orthodox Christians constituted a majority of believers in the Soviet Union. In the late 1980s, three Orthodox churches claimed substanti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samizdat: Encyclopedia Ii - Samizdat - Terminology And Related Concepts
The term was coined as a pun in an analogy with the names of Soviet official publishing houses, such as Politizdat (short for Politichesk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Stalin: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Stalin - Childhood And Early Years
Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia, to a cobbler named Vissarion Jughashvili. His mother, Ekaterina Geladze, was born a serf. Their other t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religion In The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - Religion In The Soviet Union - Muslim
In the late 1980s, Islam had the second largest number of believers in the Soviet Union, with between 45 and 50 million people identifyin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin - Cambodia
List of folk dances sorted by origin - Khmer. Ramvong ... See also:List of folk dances sorted by origin, List of folk dances sorted...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin - Turkey
Varieties of Style, Scale and Rhythm and Spheres of Use Varieties of Folk Music Music accompanied by words can be classified under the fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin - United States
List of folk dances sorted by origin - Hawaii. Hula List of folk dances sorted by origin - Louisiana. Cajun Cajun Jig, also known...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin - Moldova
List of folk dances sorted by origin - Gagauzia. Yol avası Sofra avası Sıkı horuı Saadıca karşı Pernelä Kiraţa havası Kapuy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin - Macedonia
List of folk dances sorted by origin - Western. Tetovo, Gostivar, Debar, Mavrovo, Kicevo, Krushevo and Porece Female dances are elegant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin - Indonesia
List of folk dances sorted by origin - Bali. Joged ... See also:List of folk dances sorted by origin, List of folk dances sorted by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Folk Dances Sorted By Origin - Ukraine
List of folk dances sorted by origin - Crimean Tatars. Aypetri Pendceresi Haytarma Ahmescit Haytarması Bagçasaray Ahmescit Ağır Av...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Kazakhstan: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Kazakhstan - Moving Forward
The Soviet Union's spaceport, now known as the Baikonur Cosmodrome was located in this republic at Tyuratam, with the secret town of Leni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Krymchak: Encyclopedia Ii - Krymchak - Tatar And Turkish Rule
Under the Girai Khanate the Jews were required to live in separate quarters and pay a dhimmi-tax. A limited judicial autonomy was granted...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Krymchak: Encyclopedia Ii - Krymchak - Russian And Soviet Rule
Russia annexed the Crimea in 1783. The Krymchaks were thereafter subjected to the same humiliations imposed on other Jews in Russia. Unli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Krymchak: Encyclopedia Ii - Krymchak - The Holocaust And After
Unlike the Karaim, the Krymchaks were targeted for annihilation by the Nazis. Six thousand Krymchaks, almost 75% of their population, wer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavrenty Beria: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavrenty Beria - Allegations Against Beria
Although Beria was formally convicted for being a British spy, the Communist Leadership has early on sought to spice up the charges with ...   » Read the article