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.
Following a model that seems to have worked in Ukraine, where a pro-Western president was replaced earlier this year by a pro-Russian one, United Russia is also now working actively with friendly parties in Moldova, Ukraine, and Georgia -- all countries whose political vector is up for grabs in the next 18 months.
Moscow has just four mosques to meet the spiritual needs of the city's 2 million Muslims. But nevertheless, a plan to build a new mosque in the Russian capital is sparking fierce resistance.
Tatarstan has introduced a new holiday to commemorate the adoption of Islam in what is now the Russian Federation.
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