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Museum of Moscow is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the city’s history, the Bread House of Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve presenting traditional art of the Volga Tatars, Darwin Museum offers some ...
Tatars historically don’t put sugar in tea, but eat it only as a bite so as not to spoil the taste of the tea. “ Kunak ashy – kara karshi ” or “Guest treat is mutual.” Hospitality has been considered ...
The Tatars are defined as Turkic-speaking peoples who settled along the Volga River, the Ural Mountains and in Kazakhstan and Siberia.
Russia has detained an editor at U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for failing to register as a foreign agent, the broadcaster said.
The Crimean Tatars were one of many peoples from the country’s periphery considered suspect and transported en masse to Central Asia or Siberia: others included Chechens, Ingush, Kalmyks, Meskhetian ...
The number of ethnic Tatars - Russia’s second biggest national group - fell 600,000 between 2010 and 2021. Figures for other Volga peoples - Mari, Chuvash and Udmurts - were down too, by 22.6% ...
Together with the Head of State, Iftar was shared by Ukrainian Muslim servicemen, who are currently fighting in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Crimean Tatars, Azerbaijanis, Volga Tatars, ...
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, 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.