Meaning "fire" in the Tatar language, Atesh was formed in the immediate aftermath of Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine ...

Whilst Tatars have gradually assimilated into Polish culture through the centuries – adopting Christian traditions including pilgrimages and Christmas trees, as well as speaking Polish as their native ...

We do see, however, as in ‘Tatar Girl’, brief glimpses of life of the Crimea ... an exile from his own culture and language who, in this joyful land, found only a ‘sad homestead’ – and death.

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When asked about the status of the Crimean Tatar language, Eliseev said that he sees no problem with it, "if it is the will of the people of the Kherson region, the residents of the Kherson region ...