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 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 ...

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? Well, let me back ...

The Russian Federation covers a great territory stretching from Eastern Europe to Northern Asia. The history of its development from an unstable conglomeration of small Slavic principalities into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...