Celebrations marking the 1,000th anniversary of the capital of Kazan kick off today. Kazan, on the banks of the Volga River, is the capital of the mainly Muslim republic of Tatarstan, some 700 ...

The research is important for both historians and - even more - for microbiologists and medical doctors who want to find genetic markers of susceptibility to various diseases. This project is a joint ...

The Republic of Tatarstan issues manual for learning the UDMURT language. Small signs of the periphery's independence from Moscow emerge. The growing centrality of the Tatars. With the Ukrainian ...

KAZAN, Russia -- A small group of Tatar nationalist activists have staged a protest in Kazan against what they say are government attempts to subdivide them, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.

The deportation of at least 240,000 Crimean Tatars to central Asia by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1944 is forever ingrained in the memory of the people of that region. Stalin used claims, later ...

Sitting at a low table in a little restaurant in Bakhchisaray, the old Crimean Tatar capital, Said explained to me why his people don’t want to be part of Russia: ‘We know what’s been happening to ...

Russian Muslims are now, as they have ever been, very important for strengthening relations between Russia and the Muslim world, and especially with Saudi Arabia, which, with the cities of Mecca and ...