Ramshackle charm and a Mongolian “khan”-do attitude make “Operation Tatar” a diverting if bloody contempo comedy crimer. The rare Mongol films that invade other regions are often bathed in ...

Khodorkovsky: New Tatar-Mongol Yoke Begins In Russia 11. 29.03.2023, 10:08 11,052; MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY PHOTO: DPA. Putin surrendered the country in exchange for an Asian "roof". The resounding visit ...

BAKHCHISARAY, Ukraine — Soon after darkness falls, about a dozen men gather around a community hall on the outskirts of this small city known for its stunning bluffs and grandiose Ottoman-era ...

The Crimean Tatars "first came on the map" around 1241, says Eric Lohr, when Batu Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan, conquered the region, making it a strategic part of the Mongol empire and close ...

Crimean Tatars represent often-overlooked part of Ukraine's Indigenous history . ... By the 15th century, the Tatars had cast off Mongol rule and allied with the Ottoman Empire.

Rayfield’s account is tangled with complex Mongol and Ottoman names, ... The Crimean Tatars and their Khanate by Donald Rayfield, Reaktion Books £30/$40, 360 pages.

Today there are 10,000-15,000 Lipka Tatars in the former areas of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In Poland, the 2011 census showed 1,916 people declaring Tatar ethnicity.

The history of the Crimean Tatars has taught them to tread carefully. Periods of persecution and exodus, mainly at Russian hands, have characterized the Muslim ethnic minority’s story from at ...