The Tatars and Bashkirs descend from the Golden Horde. ... east of Moscow to the Middle Volga lowlands, where six of these republics cluster together to see how they are run.

Volga Tatars are first and foremost Russian citizens, exposed to the same views on the Crimean crisis as other Russian citizens. Yet some are not without a keen sense of ethnic and linguistic ...

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, ...

The four major subgroups of the Tatar nation are the Crimean Tatars, Siberian Tatars, Volga Tatars, and Lipka Tatars. In the 19th and 20th centuries, ...

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. ...

As a boy, Gousman Ishakov was scrupulous about saying his morning prayers. But it wasn’t just his immortal soul that he was worried about. “My mother used to beat me with a stick whenev… ...

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 ...