However, there is still widespread sympathy among the Muslims of Russia for the Tatar-Mongol era, which has been revived in recent years thanks to increasingly close relations with China and the ...

was governor of the city of Kazan (now the capital of Tatarstan), the place enshrined in Russian memory as the location of Ivan the Terrible’s defeat of the Tatar-Mongol Horde. The Behrs family ...