detention at the weekend of the deputy leader of the main representative body of Crimean Tatars and at

The arrested included Nariman Dzhelyalov, the deputy chair of the Mejlis, the group’s now-banned consultative parliament, and Vladislav Esipenko, a freelance journalist.At a court hearing in Simferopol on Monday, a judge announced pre-trial detention for the men would last until at least November.... By Tuesday noon, a TV channel associated with the Russian armed forces published a filmed confession of one of the accused, Asan Akhmetov, who asserted he had been" asked to do a bad thing with the

Tatar leader over the incident.... The FSB said Ukraine's GUR military intelligence service and the

, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar announced that a 3.5 square kilometre section of the ghost town

" in the Tatar language, was formed in the immediate aftermath of Putin's full-scale invasion of

for Tatar's announcement.... " All offers other than this have expired." To date, Cyprus peace

raised the Crimean Tatar flag near the Donetsk City State Administration Credit: Getty While in Kyiv

rights of Tatars, Karaites and Krymchaks-three minorities in the Crimea region. These minorities are

Kyiv, Ukraine on Sept.... Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar lawmaker who took over as defense minister

. Ukraine’s MP Rustem Umerov and Crimean Tatar lawmaker Rustem Umerov were also among those present. What