Russia's Muslims are extremely diverse, including Volga Tatars, the myriad ethnicities of the North Caucasus and newly arrived immigrants from the former Soviet republics of Central Asia.

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 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.

For the Volga cannot be compared with the Rhine or the Hudson in castles or scenery. It has, instead, a grand, placid charm of its own, imperial, indefinable, and sweet.

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 ...

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, ...

While the Putin regime seeks to extend Russia’s empire abroad, it is facing a looming internal challenge: Will the Russian “Federation” itself actually survive. A federation is a group of states with ...

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… ...

Volga Tatars, the second-largest ethnic group in Russia, primarily belong to the Sunni Hanafi branch of Islam, similar to Turks, and express positive attitudes toward Turkey.

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. ...