May 18 is the day of remembrance of the victims of the Crimean Tatar genocide. On May 18–21, 1944, the soviet authorities committed genocide, deporting the Crimean Tatars from their historical homeland — Crimea — to the Urals, Central Asia, Uzbekistan, etc.
On May 11, 1944, the executioner of the peoples ioseb jugashvili (joseph stalin) signed a decree according to which the Crimean Tatars were declared traitors, collaborators, aids of the fascist government and subject to deportation. 20,000 soldiers were sent to Crimea to carry out the operation.
On May 18, at 4 a.m., soldiers broke into the houses of the Crimean Tatars. They were given 15 minutes to collect things and food for 3 days. Some people did not know russian, so they did not understand what the soldiers were saying to them.
In 1941, mobilization was announced and all men went to war. In 1944, the young men who remained were taken to the "labor army". Therefore, only women, children and the elderly remained in Crimea.
Only then did it become clear why they were sent to the "labor army" — to facilitate the operation of eviction of the Crimean Tatar people.
On May 20, at 4 p.m., the deportation ended. 67 echelons of wagons packed with people left Crimea.
Without water, without food, people traveled in wagons for animals, with no windows. People died of hunger, dehydration, disease and suffocation.
Soldiers rarely stopped trains; they would do this only to get the bodies out of the wagons.
Half of the Crimean Tatar people (~195,472 souls) died during the deportation process and in the first years after it.
Local residents mistrusted the "traitors". At first, Crimean Tatars were not considered as people, then the situation improved, but still, the question of nationality played a major role in employment or admission to a university.
In 1958, the soviet authorities canceled the curfew for the Crimean Tatars, since then people tried to return to Crimea, but in vain: they were not allowed, they were not registered, they were not given work, and they were expelled.
Only in 1989 was there an opportunity to return to the homeland.
But no one was waiting for the Crimean Tatars there. Strangers lived on their native lands, in soviet-named villages and cities.
Crimean Tatars were again forced to build temporary houses on bare ground.
In 2014, after the occupation of Crimea, many Crimean Tatars were forced to move to the continental part of Ukraine. Once again, the Crimean Tatar people had to flee from the moscow boot.
We must remember this tragedy. Crimean Tatars will return their land and revive everything that was lost. And russia will answer for everything.
On May 11, 1944, the executioner of the peoples ioseb jugashvili (joseph stalin) signed a decree according to which the Crimean Tatars were declared traitors, collaborators, aids of the fascist government and subject to deportation. 20,000 soldiers were sent to Crimea to carry out the operation.
On May 18, at 4 a.m., soldiers broke into the houses of the Crimean Tatars. They were given 15 minutes to collect things and food for 3 days. Some people did not know russian, so they did not understand what the soldiers were saying to them.
In 1941, mobilization was announced and all men went to war. In 1944, the young men who remained were taken to the "labor army". Therefore, only women, children and the elderly remained in Crimea.
Only then did it become clear why they were sent to the "labor army" — to facilitate the operation of eviction of the Crimean Tatar people.
On May 20, at 4 p.m., the deportation ended. 67 echelons of wagons packed with people left Crimea.
Without water, without food, people traveled in wagons for animals, with no windows. People died of hunger, dehydration, disease and suffocation.
Soldiers rarely stopped trains; they would do this only to get the bodies out of the wagons.
Half of the Crimean Tatar people (~195,472 souls) died during the deportation process and in the first years after it.
Local residents mistrusted the "traitors". At first, Crimean Tatars were not considered as people, then the situation improved, but still, the question of nationality played a major role in employment or admission to a university.
In 1958, the soviet authorities canceled the curfew for the Crimean Tatars, since then people tried to return to Crimea, but in vain: they were not allowed, they were not registered, they were not given work, and they were expelled.
Only in 1989 was there an opportunity to return to the homeland.
But no one was waiting for the Crimean Tatars there. Strangers lived on their native lands, in soviet-named villages and cities.
Crimean Tatars were again forced to build temporary houses on bare ground.
In 2014, after the occupation of Crimea, many Crimean Tatars were forced to move to the continental part of Ukraine. Once again, the Crimean Tatar people had to flee from the moscow boot.
We must remember this tragedy. Crimean Tatars will return their land and revive everything that was lost. And russia will answer for everything.
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Statehood with the center in moscow never changes, whether it is the empire which deported Rumaiics and Urums, the soviet union which deported Crimean Tatars or the modern russian federation.
All decisions of the hostile state are full of sick and wry symbolism with a sadist flavor. So, on May 18, on the anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people, a new decree was adopted: No. 168783-8 "About introducing changes to particular federal constitutional acts" by A. Klishas, V. Poletayev, P. Krasheninnikov, D. Viatkin, et. First of all, act No. 1-FKZ "About martial law" is about to face changes.
This decree regards Ukrainians straightly because currently, the occupant country has introduced martial law in the occupied parts of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Donetsk oblasts. Occupied Crimea is also one step far from this. So how does this decree threaten the Ukrainian folks?
It brings changes to Article 7 defining measures applied to the people living on the territory of martial law. That is, adds a possibility of compulsory and controlled shifting of people from the mentioned territories. This, in fact, is a deportation.
Moreover, those who disobey the president's orders on these territories may be arrested for 30 days.
Serhii Rybalko, member of the Regional Military Administration of the Kherson Oblast defined this decree to the Current Time:
– Russian perverted symbolism particularly showed up today, on the 79th anniversary of the forced shifting of the Crimean Tatar people. I think the Russian Duma timed its repeated decision to deport people from Ukraine to this very date. What else can be said? Everyone understands now: [they] came to invade new territories, move locals away from there, in fact, deport them, and then probably create here "gray areas" or some settlement of other people. Russia is moving forward to the genocide of the Ukrainian people by leaps and bounds. And this is their main purpose — now, as always.
Furthermore, the deputy adds that there already are facts of shifting people, although, possibly, not compulsory. But people who agreed to this are moved to the region chosen by occupant authorities without any permission to leave for three years.
According to him, the 30 days arrests can be used to try and "convince" young men from the occupied territories to join the occupant army.
So moscow again strikes a blow at the southern and eastern folks of Ukraine, again implements deportation and breaks Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols forbidding deportation and mobilization of people from the occupied territories (Art. 49 and 51).
All decisions of the hostile state are full of sick and wry symbolism with a sadist flavor. So, on May 18, on the anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people, a new decree was adopted: No. 168783-8 "About introducing changes to particular federal constitutional acts" by A. Klishas, V. Poletayev, P. Krasheninnikov, D. Viatkin, et. First of all, act No. 1-FKZ "About martial law" is about to face changes.
This decree regards Ukrainians straightly because currently, the occupant country has introduced martial law in the occupied parts of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Donetsk oblasts. Occupied Crimea is also one step far from this. So how does this decree threaten the Ukrainian folks?
It brings changes to Article 7 defining measures applied to the people living on the territory of martial law. That is, adds a possibility of compulsory and controlled shifting of people from the mentioned territories. This, in fact, is a deportation.
Moreover, those who disobey the president's orders on these territories may be arrested for 30 days.
Serhii Rybalko, member of the Regional Military Administration of the Kherson Oblast defined this decree to the Current Time:
– Russian perverted symbolism particularly showed up today, on the 79th anniversary of the forced shifting of the Crimean Tatar people. I think the Russian Duma timed its repeated decision to deport people from Ukraine to this very date. What else can be said? Everyone understands now: [they] came to invade new territories, move locals away from there, in fact, deport them, and then probably create here "gray areas" or some settlement of other people. Russia is moving forward to the genocide of the Ukrainian people by leaps and bounds. And this is their main purpose — now, as always.
Furthermore, the deputy adds that there already are facts of shifting people, although, possibly, not compulsory. But people who agreed to this are moved to the region chosen by occupant authorities without any permission to leave for three years.
According to him, the 30 days arrests can be used to try and "convince" young men from the occupied territories to join the occupant army.
So moscow again strikes a blow at the southern and eastern folks of Ukraine, again implements deportation and breaks Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols forbidding deportation and mobilization of people from the occupied territories (Art. 49 and 51).
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Widely known nowadays Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was built in 1981. It was chosen to place on the bank of the Kakhov reservoir filled with water in 1956.
As we know, the soviet union worried about people on paper only, so the reservoir drowned a few dozen settlements. In total, 90 villages. Khan Mamai’s historic capital Zamyk town was also flooded.
Nowadays, only the reservoir separates Nikopol on the opposite bank from Enerhodar which is occupied by the russians heart of Southern Ukrainian energetics.
The first power unit of the ZNPP was launched in 1984. More often mentioned sixth one started working in 1995. During its work, the ZNPP was awarded many times, in particular: Torch of Birmingham, due to successful economic survival and development in the emergence of market relations conditions, and acknowledgement as one of the three best nuclear power plants in the world utterly responding to demands of the IAEA according to the results of 2000.
Ukraine was buying nuclear fuel for the power plant from Sweden and the russian federation. That very russian federation would turn the ZNPP into a weapon soon.
One year before the full-scale invasion, on January 4, 2021, the power plant started working at full power for the first time. On the night of March 4, 2022, russians captured the power plant. All of us remember the live translation from the ZNPP, the tank fire on the object’s buildings. Apart from that, we remember how it was impossible for several hours to extinguish the fire as a result of shelling because the russians didn’t let the firefighters in. After that, on March 4 in the morning, the picture in this post was taken.
Under the careful supervision of the Rosatom company russian armed forces placed weapons on the territory of the power plant, tortured its employees, and many times created emergencies. Note that militaries defending Rosatom objects also participated in capturing: major-general Alexey Dombrovskii, colonels Alexey Reshetnev, Sergey Dovgan, and Yuri Lukachov, major Muradhan Ahmedhanov.
The ZNPP is the first nuclear power plant in the world under occupation. It used to produce one-fifth part of Ukrainian energy and half of energy produced at nuclear power plants. Now it is a grenade in the old and cranky psycho’s hand. The peaceful atom is turned into a weapon. International organizations have to do everything to return the ZNPP under the control of the Ukrainian Energoatom as soon as possible and never let such a situation emerge again. Wherever in the world.
This post was written in Zaporizhzhia and translated into English in Nikopol.
As we know, the soviet union worried about people on paper only, so the reservoir drowned a few dozen settlements. In total, 90 villages. Khan Mamai’s historic capital Zamyk town was also flooded.
Nowadays, only the reservoir separates Nikopol on the opposite bank from Enerhodar which is occupied by the russians heart of Southern Ukrainian energetics.
The first power unit of the ZNPP was launched in 1984. More often mentioned sixth one started working in 1995. During its work, the ZNPP was awarded many times, in particular: Torch of Birmingham, due to successful economic survival and development in the emergence of market relations conditions, and acknowledgement as one of the three best nuclear power plants in the world utterly responding to demands of the IAEA according to the results of 2000.
Ukraine was buying nuclear fuel for the power plant from Sweden and the russian federation. That very russian federation would turn the ZNPP into a weapon soon.
One year before the full-scale invasion, on January 4, 2021, the power plant started working at full power for the first time. On the night of March 4, 2022, russians captured the power plant. All of us remember the live translation from the ZNPP, the tank fire on the object’s buildings. Apart from that, we remember how it was impossible for several hours to extinguish the fire as a result of shelling because the russians didn’t let the firefighters in. After that, on March 4 in the morning, the picture in this post was taken.
Under the careful supervision of the Rosatom company russian armed forces placed weapons on the territory of the power plant, tortured its employees, and many times created emergencies. Note that militaries defending Rosatom objects also participated in capturing: major-general Alexey Dombrovskii, colonels Alexey Reshetnev, Sergey Dovgan, and Yuri Lukachov, major Muradhan Ahmedhanov.
The ZNPP is the first nuclear power plant in the world under occupation. It used to produce one-fifth part of Ukrainian energy and half of energy produced at nuclear power plants. Now it is a grenade in the old and cranky psycho’s hand. The peaceful atom is turned into a weapon. International organizations have to do everything to return the ZNPP under the control of the Ukrainian Energoatom as soon as possible and never let such a situation emerge again. Wherever in the world.
This post was written in Zaporizhzhia and translated into English in Nikopol.
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Ukraine. Kherson oblast. Right now. Flood due to the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant by russia.
Photo from "Новинач".
Photo from "Новинач".
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Nova Kakhovka is a town in the Kherson Oblast with 45,422 citizens. In 1992, "Fairytale Oakery" minizoo was founded here which welcomed more than 100,000 visitors annually before the russian invasion.
Today, russians destroyed the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. The zoo is flooded. According to the "Lachen Writes" telegram channel, all animals have died. Their deaths, as well as those of thousands of Ukrainians, are russian fault.
You can support animals affected by war here: https://uanimals.org
Today, russians destroyed the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. The zoo is flooded. According to the "Lachen Writes" telegram channel, all animals have died. Their deaths, as well as those of thousands of Ukrainians, are russian fault.
You can support animals affected by war here: https://uanimals.org
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📺 Our first animation in English!
🕸 In a small cottage, there lived a widow with her children and two spiders. Once upon a time, on Christmas Eve, the widow and her children looked at the empty pine tree and realized they had nothing to decorate it with. Who will save the holiday? Find out in the tale of Ukrainian diaspora in Canada!
https://youtu.be/NvzGct7h-4c
🕸 In a small cottage, there lived a widow with her children and two spiders. Once upon a time, on Christmas Eve, the widow and her children looked at the empty pine tree and realized they had nothing to decorate it with. Who will save the holiday? Find out in the tale of Ukrainian diaspora in Canada!
https://youtu.be/NvzGct7h-4c
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"Christmas Spiders" fairytale. Animation in English. Ave Tales. Audiotale. Animated audiotale.
In a small cottage, there lived a widow with her children and two spiders. Once upon a time, on Christmas Eve, the widow and her children looked at the empty pine tree and realized they had nothing to decorate it with. Who will save the holiday? Find out…
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⌨️ Belarusian Latin keyboard layout update to v20.02.2025!
👀 What's New:
- Updated method of entering soft letters using the acute accent;
- Changed update procedure — it now includes an additional reboot, after which the installation automatically continues;
- Removed Ave Keyboard Installer files from the Git repository. We will publish them separately in the coming days.
ℹ️ In previous versions, there was a problem that allowed the same soft letter to be typed in two different ways. For example, the letter Ń could be entered as Alt+Shift+N or as the combination N + ◌́. The issue was that the first method returned the Ń (U+0143) character, while the second produced a combination of N (U+004E) + ◌́ (U+0301).
⚠️ Now, both methods correctly return a single character Ćć, Ĺĺ, Ńń, Śś, Źź. The acute accent is typed first, followed by the corresponding letter.
Additionally, remember that Ćć, Ńń, Śś, Źź can be typed using Cc, Nn, Ss, Zz with Alt Gr or Ctrl+Alt, while Ll combinations will return Łł.
⬇️ Download as always via the link: https://keyboard.aveteam.org
👀 What's New:
- Updated method of entering soft letters using the acute accent;
- Changed update procedure — it now includes an additional reboot, after which the installation automatically continues;
- Removed Ave Keyboard Installer files from the Git repository. We will publish them separately in the coming days.
ℹ️ In previous versions, there was a problem that allowed the same soft letter to be typed in two different ways. For example, the letter Ń could be entered as Alt+Shift+N or as the combination N + ◌́. The issue was that the first method returned the Ń (U+0143) character, while the second produced a combination of N (U+004E) + ◌́ (U+0301).
⚠️ Now, both methods correctly return a single character Ćć, Ĺĺ, Ńń, Śś, Źź. The acute accent is typed first, followed by the corresponding letter.
Additionally, remember that Ćć, Ńń, Śś, Źź can be typed using Cc, Nn, Ss, Zz with Alt Gr or Ctrl+Alt, while Ll combinations will return Łł.
⬇️ Download as always via the link: https://keyboard.aveteam.org
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⌨️ Crimean Tatar Latin Keyboard Layout Update to Version v25.03.2025!
👀 What's New:
— The input method for characters common in countries with Crimean Tatar diasporas has been updated;
— Design changes (the contrast ratio of the manual and layout now meets the 1:7 standard, and the layout scheme now highlights new dead keys);
— The update procedure on Windows has been modified — it now includes an additional restart, after which the installation automatically resumes;
— The update mechanism for Linux distributions has been changed — the entire process is now handled by installCRH.sh instead of updateCRH.sh;
— Fixed a bug in Linux distributions where removing the layout did not delete its data from the /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml file;
— The installation scripts for Linux have been tested with the GNOME and Wayland combination;
— The Ave Keyboard Installer files have been removed from the Git repository. We will publish them separately in the coming days.
ℹ️ Previous versions contained an issue where characters common in countries with Crimean Tatar diasporas were input as a combination of two symbols. For example, the letter Á was generated as A (U+0041) + ◌́ (U+0301) instead of a single character Á (U+00C1). This led to incorrect rendering in certain fonts and made it more difficult to create regular expressions involving these characters. To resolve this, the following combining diacritics: ◌̆ (combining breve), ◌̦ (combining comma below), ◌́ (combining acute), and ◌̂ (combining circumflex) have been replaced with dead keys.
⚠️ Now, characters common in countries with Crimean Tatar diasporas are displayed correctly. To type them, first press the dead key with the diacritical mark, then the corresponding letter. Here's a detailed explanation:
1️⃣ For characters found in the Latin script used by UDTTMR:
— To type Ĭ ĭ, press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+6 first, then the corresponding letter from the I ı pair;
— To type Ș ș, press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+8 first, then the corresponding letter from the S s pair.
2️⃣ For characters found in the Latin script of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of the University of Bucharest:
— To type Á á, Í ı́, Ó ó, Ú ú, press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+7 first, then the corresponding letter from the A a, I ı, O o, U u pairs;
— To type Î î, press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+Â first, then the corresponding letter from the I ı pair.
⬇️ Download as always at: https://keyboard.aveteam.org
👀 What's New:
— The input method for characters common in countries with Crimean Tatar diasporas has been updated;
— Design changes (the contrast ratio of the manual and layout now meets the 1:7 standard, and the layout scheme now highlights new dead keys);
— The update procedure on Windows has been modified — it now includes an additional restart, after which the installation automatically resumes;
— The update mechanism for Linux distributions has been changed — the entire process is now handled by installCRH.sh instead of updateCRH.sh;
— Fixed a bug in Linux distributions where removing the layout did not delete its data from the /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml file;
— The installation scripts for Linux have been tested with the GNOME and Wayland combination;
— The Ave Keyboard Installer files have been removed from the Git repository. We will publish them separately in the coming days.
ℹ️ Previous versions contained an issue where characters common in countries with Crimean Tatar diasporas were input as a combination of two symbols. For example, the letter Á was generated as A (U+0041) + ◌́ (U+0301) instead of a single character Á (U+00C1). This led to incorrect rendering in certain fonts and made it more difficult to create regular expressions involving these characters. To resolve this, the following combining diacritics: ◌̆ (combining breve), ◌̦ (combining comma below), ◌́ (combining acute), and ◌̂ (combining circumflex) have been replaced with dead keys.
⚠️ Now, characters common in countries with Crimean Tatar diasporas are displayed correctly. To type them, first press the dead key with the diacritical mark, then the corresponding letter. Here's a detailed explanation:
1️⃣ For characters found in the Latin script used by UDTTMR:
— To type Ĭ ĭ, press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+6 first, then the corresponding letter from the I ı pair;
— To type Ș ș, press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+8 first, then the corresponding letter from the S s pair.
2️⃣ For characters found in the Latin script of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of the University of Bucharest:
— To type Á á, Í ı́, Ó ó, Ú ú, press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+7 first, then the corresponding letter from the A a, I ı, O o, U u pairs;
— To type Î î, press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+Â first, then the corresponding letter from the I ı pair.
⬇️ Download as always at: https://keyboard.aveteam.org
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🌐 Today is a special day for the Ave Keyboard project: we are launching a completely new website!
👀 What’s new on the website:
— A new design with a more user-friendly interface and improved responsiveness for different devices and screen sizes;
— A complete list of key combinations for every keyboard layout across all supported platforms;
— Support for four separate interface languages: Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar, Belarusian, and English;
— Compliance with WCAG standards and European privacy requirements;
— Organization contact information;
— Numerous bugs and issues from the previous version have been fixed.
ℹ️ The previous version of the website had a number of technical and design limitations that made the resource harder to use and difficult to scale further. The new website was built entirely from scratch — allowing us not only to resolve existing issues, but also to rethink the way information is presented, provide proper multilingual support, and make the resource more accessible for all categories of users regardless of language, device, or accessibility needs.
We are proud of the result and hope that the new website will become a convenient and reliable source of information for everyone who uses our keyboard layouts or is just beginning to explore them.
⬇️ Visit the website here: https://keyboard.aveteam.org
👀 What’s new on the website:
— A new design with a more user-friendly interface and improved responsiveness for different devices and screen sizes;
— A complete list of key combinations for every keyboard layout across all supported platforms;
— Support for four separate interface languages: Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar, Belarusian, and English;
— Compliance with WCAG standards and European privacy requirements;
— Organization contact information;
— Numerous bugs and issues from the previous version have been fixed.
ℹ️ The previous version of the website had a number of technical and design limitations that made the resource harder to use and difficult to scale further. The new website was built entirely from scratch — allowing us not only to resolve existing issues, but also to rethink the way information is presented, provide proper multilingual support, and make the resource more accessible for all categories of users regardless of language, device, or accessibility needs.
We are proud of the result and hope that the new website will become a convenient and reliable source of information for everyone who uses our keyboard layouts or is just beginning to explore them.
⬇️ Visit the website here: https://keyboard.aveteam.org