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 ...

Living Areas: Tatar ethnic people mainly inhabit northern Xinjiang, though a smaller number are found in the southern part of the region. Population: There are 4,900 Tatar residents in Xinjiang, ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. All but one of Crimea's independent Tatar-language media outlets, ...

Even thousands of kilometres away from Tatarstan, their homeland, during the summer Tatar communities in the United States held cultural training camps for children and young people aged 5 to 20. The ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Russian authorities have forced Crimean Tatars to become Russian ...