191 children of Crimean Tatars, the indigenous population of the Crimean peninsula, are growing up without their fathers. After Russia occupied it in 2014, it has cracked down on all dissenters — especially the Crimean Tatars, who resisted the illegal landgrab. Some of the very youngest ones have never seen their fathers — they were born after their arrest. A photo exhibition now tells their story.
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Yuliia Rudenko: Crimean Tatar kids born after their fathers’ arrests
Crimean Tatars and other participants gather for a memorial event on the Independence Square in Kyiv on May 18, 2020 in commemoration of the 76th anniversary of the deportation of the indigenous population of the Crimea by the Soviet Union.
