Kirimli Community in Lviv: A New Home or a Temporal Shelter?
Journal: Visnyk of the Lviv University Series International Relations
Year: 2019

The Crimean Tatars, who managed to preserve their ethnic, cultural and religious identity through the most difficult trials of history, nowadays have been undergoing severe times due to the developments in Crimea. Russia’s annexation of the peninsular on 18 March 2014 caused almost immediate wave of the first internally displaced people of the Crimean Tatar community arriving in western Ukraine. Compared to only 20 Crimean Tatars who used to live in Lviv before 2014, now their number increased t