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 ...

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 minority in the country counts 4.7 million individuals: in 2010 there were 5.3 million. Also declining in the original regions. Ethnic Russians in Tatarstan are growing. Use was made of the ...

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.

Shamil Alyautdinov often says things you do not quite expect from an imam. But 70 years of communism have bulldozed most religious and ethnic traditions in Russia, so do not be surprised when you hear ...

MOSCOW — Low domestic birthrates and rising immigration from the former Soviet republics are producing explosive growth in Russia’s Muslim community, which is on a track to account for more than half ...

While the Putin regime seeks to extend Russia’s empire abroad, it is facing a looming internal challenge: Will the Russian “Federation” itself actually survive. A federation is a group of states with ...