Ever since the Russian annexation of Crimea in early 2014, thousands of minority Muslim Crimean Tatars have fled the peninsula, many to the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Lviv.
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Newsweek: In Ukraine, Crimea’s Tatars haunted by a second exile
A woman holds a Crimean Tatar flag during a memorial ceremony on the Independence square in Kyiv on May 18, 2016 in commemoration of the 72nd anniversary of the deportation of the indigenous population of the Crimea by the Soviet Union.
