KAZAN, Russia -- By day, Alia Sabirova wraps her arm around her 3-year-old daughter Sufia and shares a good book. By night, she's in the spotlight, belting out Latin-fusion-influenced songs to throngs ...

KAZAN, Russia -- Tatar language classes are no longer mandatory in Russia's Tatarstan region, a senior official has announced. Tatarstan Prosecutor-General Ildus Nafikov said on November 29 that ...

KAZAN, Russia — This month, school officials across Tatarstan were ordered to trim by half the number of hours of optional lessons offered in the Tatar language — from four a week down to two. The ...

Ukraine's Reintegration Ministry has announced the creation of the National Corpus of the Crimean Tatar language, a database of texts in Crimean Tatar for the purpose of language research, the ...

It has been almost four years since a presidential decree limiting the study of indigenous languages in the Russian Federation's national republics came into force. This was in 2017 when the ...

All but one of Crimea's independent Tatar-language media outlets, including several popular children's television channels, will be shut down tomorrow as the midnight deadline for re-registration ...

The Tatar people have lived in settlements all across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since the Middle Ages. The Tatars traditionally espouse the Sunni branch of Islam and have historically ...

The second-largest ethnic group in the modern Russian Federation, after the Russians, are the Tatars, Turkic-speaking Sunni Muslims who are indigenous to the Volga and Ural regions, including the ...