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Crimean Tatar Repression Dataset

Version 1.0, published: Oct. 18, 2025.

Felix Schulte


Main category: Security
Curated by: Heiko Pleines
Additional categories: Protests
Felix Schulte, Elmira Muratova (2025): Crimean Tatar Repression Dataset, v. 1.0, Discuss Data, https://doi.org/10.48320/18E45DE4-346B-4110-BFDA-7ED86769D1A3

Description

Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea marked the onset of a systematic repression campaign against the Crimean Tatar population. We introduce CriTaRep v1.0, the first comprehensive, geo-coded event dataset documenting state repression against Crimean Tatars (2014-2024). Drawing on locally sourced materials in Crimean Tatar, Ukrainian, and Russian languages, CriTaRep records n = 690 repression events affecting more than 2,200 individual victims. We inductively identify 22 repression types across three categories: deprivation of liberty, legal and administrative repression, and physical repression. Find more information here: https://www.ecmi.de/research-clusters/special-research-themes/repression-against-crimean-tatars.

Countries

Ukraine

Keywords

Repression Russia Crimean Tatars Annexation Autocracy Minorities

Language of data

English

Disciplines

Comparative Politics Conflict Studies Minority Studies

Methods of data collection

Collection Of Relevant Documents And Reports (Desktop Research)