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 ...

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 ...

Details: This function was previously available only through the transliteration provided under the translation in Cyrillic. "Have you all noticed that Google can now translate into Crimean Tatar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...