Tag: ethnic Ukrainians

Russians Repress Ukrainians In Far East And Threaten To Deport Crimean Tatars There

March 27, 2015

Staunton, March 26 — Ethnic Ukrainians in the Russian Far East, the descendants of Ukrainians who moved there voluntarily in late tsarist times and forcibly in Soviet ones, are being harassed by Russians there for their support of Ukraine, even as Russians in Crimea are threatening the Crimean Tatars with deportation to that faraway region. […]

Fate of Post-Soviet Space and of Russia Itself at Issue in Ukraine, Kazakh Scholar Says

December 1, 2014

Staunton, November 29 – The fate not only of Ukrain,e but also of the entire post-Soviet space, and even the survival of Russia itself as a single unified country is being decided by what is happening in the conflict in southeastern Ukraine, according to Aydos Sarym, a political scientist from Kazakhstan. He told the UNIAN […]

Verkhovna Rada Says Moscow Must Treat Ukrainians in Russia the Way It Wants Kyiv to Treat Russians in Ukraine

June 23, 2014

Staunton, June 22 – Two-thirds of the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada have voted for a declaration calling on the UN, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, and the European Parliament to focus on Moscow’s violation of the rights of ethnic Ukrainians living in the Russian Federation and stating that bilateral ties will depend on […]