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 Dear friends, and community!  This document was last updated in September 2022. Everybody is concerned and worried about the ongoing war in Ukraine and the russian occupation. As individuals, we can help Ukraine resist and as a community spread the word. It always feels helpful to have something concrete we can do.  Here is what you can do individually and collectively to save Ukraine from russian aggression and its full-scale war on February 24, 2022: 1. Donate for the Ukrainian Forces: https://uahelp.monobank.ua/  2. Ukrainian Military Support Fund: https://www.comebackalive.in.ua/donate    3. Help Ohmatdyt Hospital: https://cutt.ly/ohmatdyt_help  4. How to send humanitarian aid: https://ukraine-helpers.com/#human  5. Join the volunteer troops: https://fightforua.org/  6. Ukraine support letter you can use to send to your local Congressperson in the U.S. (Please see the letter template below).  7. Volunteer paramedic organization - Ho...

"Why Crimean Tatars Are Being Persecuted In Occupied Crimea" by Nara Narimanova published for Syracuse University of English Language Institute in New York, the U.S.  August 11, 2021 Description/Abstract This poster discusses the three main reasons why Crimean Tatars are being persecuted by the Russian Federation in Occupied Crimea: for their religious beliefs, political will, and citizen journalism. Citation: Narimanova, Nara, "Why Crimean Tatars Are Being Persecuted In Occupied Crimea" (2021). English Language Institute. 174. https://surface.syr.edu/eli/174 This work has been created with support from the Institute of International Education (IIE)/Fulbright - English for Graduate Students Program. https://surface.syr.edu/eli/174/ 

Need to share this article that Xavier Colas has written six years ago interviewing me, pro-Western, and Tatiana Bridko, pro-Russian, (to give two opinions on the annexation) for El Mundo publication in Spanish. You can read it via not-perfect GOOGLE translation tool below.  All the rights are of the author and a publication copied from  El Mundo web-page . Crimea: between empire and freedom XAVIER COLÁS Updated:  04/05/2014  00:17 hours 14 When Nara Narimanova was a child, she had one country under her feet and another on her head.  The first was called Uzbekistan, a conservative land where Soviet inertia and Muslim traditions are walls that few can break.  There was a very different place in his mind: Crimea.  From there Stalin kicked out her grandparents, Tatars, in May 1944. For her and her parents, this region was a distant paradise that they had never trodden.  A mission to accomplish, a place to return ...

I wanted to write a review about "Parasites" a long time ago, which impressed me very much, and the moments from the movie that I still keep recalling. You may have heard about "Parasites" many times but this is a picture of South Korean film director Bong Joon-ho, who received the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival this 2019 year. Bong Joon-ho has been in cinematography for many years, and he is well known globally for quite a long time. His thriller “Snowpiercer” was mentioned many times, which I have not watched yet, but I will watch all of his works after seeing the Parasites. A two-and-a-half-hour film plunges us into the tragic scene of two families, shows us the relationships of people from different social groups. At the first hour of a movie, viewers laugh on the truth in person’s essence they might see in themselves, and the next hour and a half they are amazed at the wretchedness, greed, cruelty, and such a strange stupidity of a human being. ...

I am a State Department Fellow within the Professional Fellows Program of 2018. While staying in Sacramento (California) which is a month of great activities, learning, networking and developing professional skills, all fellows are required to do volunteer work. I am doing my fellowship program at the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research. I’ve been also involved in work of the Strategic Growth Council. The aim of the PFP is to provide professional skills and opportunities across the states to learn and know how different organizations function, how they work on the ground, in order we could learn and take back all the skills to our countries. Because we are the Leaders of Changes. Please don't judge me on this statement ;) Many folks across the world can participate in this program, no matter what is the area of your work, but you need to have at least two years of professional experience and be a Leader of age 25-40, have a track record of making an impact in yo...

Three days of Europe’s Frayed Borders have passed very fast. They were very intensive, emotional, inspiring. 8 active women from different countries, as: Ukraine - Crimea (2), Russia, Armenia, Poland (Belgium), Lithuania, France, Greece, were invited by the Foundation Prinsessendag in co-operation with the Foundation Samalas, to participate at the conference entitled “Vrouwenportretten; Aan Europa’s rafelende randen” in Assen, the Netherlands, from 13 – 15 March 2015. The event was founded by the Municipal of Assen, where the first day guests were visiting the City Hall of Assen to meet with Marco Out​, the Mayor of Assen, and other representatives of  municipality. The Historical Human Rights walk was organized in the framework of the conference. During this walk the Holocaust history was told by an old person, an eyewitness of the genocide of Jews. The conference started by presentation of 8 activists and main other guests. The event was attended by politicians, people ...