Aliev Alim

Alim Aliev is a journalist, human rights defender and manager of educational and cultural projects. He works as a deputy director of the Ukrainian Institute. Alim Aliev was a former journalist of the Crimean newspaper Avdet and a co-founder of the Crimea SOS NGO.

In 2008-2016 Alim Aliev worked as an analyst and communications consultant at the pro.mova expert company where he managed customer interactions and helped his clients to build the system of relations with the media and audiences, researched the values of societies, conducted trainings in communications and media analytics, and worked with more than 70 companies and organizations (he, inter alia, organized the media events in Ukraine involving the ex-United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in 2014).

He is the program director of the Crimean House, the Crimean cultural, educational, informational, human rights and research center in Ukraine.

Alim Aliev is the co-author of the book Mustafa Cemilev. Unbreakable, coordinator of the Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar literary contest and festival Qirim inciri, complier of the eponymous book, and a co-author of the exhibition Amazing Stories of Crimea at the Mystetskyi Arsenal.

He is also the curator of the Crimean platforms at the Book Arsenal, Lviv Media Forum, and BookForum Lviv, participant and speaker with advocatory missions at the Council of Europe, European Parliament, OSCE, UNSC, and many different political institutions of the EU and USA on the situation in Crimea, member of the executive boards of Center UA NGO and the Educational Center for Human Rights in Lviv.

In his work, Alim Aliev focuses on topics such as occupied Crimea, humanitarian policy, current state of the Crimean Tatar people, the freedom of speech, and communication strategies.