Students at Kazan Federal University have protested a decision by the university administration to hold classes as usual even though Tatarstan is marking an important Islamic holiday.
It was billed by some aides as a follow-up to last year's epic message to the Muslim world, delivered amid great fanfare in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. But President Barack Obama's remarks about Islam this week in Jakarta, Indonesia, were much more modest and low-key -- and may have failed to reach many Muslim ears.
Finnish President Tarja Halonen has arrived in the Tatar capital, Kazan, to boost economic and cultural relations with the Russian republic.
Russia's Muslim-majority republic of Tatarstan recently hosted its first Islamic Fashion Week. The show of styles by young designers across the Islamic world attracted many Tatar spectators -- and some criticism from the Islamic establishment.
Activists in Tatarstan have protested against the proposed abolition of the term "president" to designate the heads of Russia's 21 republics.
All citizens in the Russian republic of Tatarstan who were unaccounted for in last month's census will be automatically counted as being ethnic Russians, a census taker has told RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met with leaders from Finland's Tatar ethnic minority in Helsinki.
Inhabitants of the village of Rassvet in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan are boycotting the national census to protest a lack of available drinking water.
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has been made a foreign member of Tatarstan's Academy of Sciences.
As Russia conducts its first nationwide census in eight years, the count is raising concerns among some of the country's ethnic minorities, especially in the republic of Tatarstan.
Russia has officially begun the 12-day process of counting and categorizing its estimated 142 million residents. Authorities are eager to ensure the 2010 All-Russian Census will avoid the pitfalls of the last count eight years ago, when claims of skewed results forced state statisticians to offer revised numbers several years later. Much of the controversy centers on the issue of Russia's ethnic minorities, who are eager to see their ranks get a fair count.
he Kazan Human Rights Center has asked Tatarstan's Prosecutor-General's Office to investigate alleged extortion in the republic's schools.
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