About half of Russia’s 5.3 million Tatars live in Tatarstan, which boasts a thriving economy fed by its own oil company and military aircraft factories, as well as a new IT park on the outskirts ...

Kazan, on the banks of the Volga River, is the capital of the mainly Muslim republic of Tatarstan, some 700 kilometers east of Moscow. The Tatars trace their lineage back to the Mongols who raced ...

Karan, Tatarstan — THIS IS the place where “Russia” now falls apart or stays together. This is the next act in the endless melodrama of the death of communism. This is . . . where… ...

The growing centrality of the Tatars. With the Ukrainian crisis, the suggestion of a Tatar-Bashkian state between the Urals and the Volga returns. Donate now Support AsiaNews. About us. P.I.M.E. ...

The Tatars' paternalistic treatment of the other Volga peoples reflects ancient autonomist and expansionist instincts at the same time, reinforced by the contingency of the Russo-Ukrainian war ...

Volga Tatars went through a long process of ethnogenesis in an area populated by dozens of different ethnicities, so some genetic samples were taken from nearest neighbors, ...

With Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region, the peninsula's Crimean Tatar minority faces a harsh new de facto legal environment. There are fears that activists and ordinary Muslims could ...