Recently she has detected nascent support for the Tatars among the Russians who make up the bulk of the Crimean population.

It is estimated that up to 75% of the Crimean population consisted of slaves or freedmen.

The last census estimated that 67 percent of the 2.5 million Crimean population were ethnic Russians and the remainder Ukrainians.

In comparison, the ethnic Crimean Tatar population has been growing at the rate of 0.9% per annum.

He was only six months old when his family, with the rest of the Crimean Tatar population, was deported by Soviet authorities in May 1944.

But one-fourth of the Crimean population lives on government pensions.

During World War II, the entire Crimean Tatar population in Crimea fell victim to Soviet policies.

However, this did not protect the Crimean Tatars, who constituted about 25% of the Crimean population, from Joseph Stalin's repressions of the 1930s.

Representatives of the Crimean Tatar population had opposed the referendum on the grounds that, as the indigenous people, only they should be allowed to vote.

These particular sausages are traditional food of the Crimean Tatar population.