A Tatar youth forum has affirmed support for retaining the title of president for the head of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Having created a "management vertical" and having destroyed all vestiges of federalism and the first sprouts of local self-government, the Kremlin nonetheless must hang on to the old banner of the Russian "Federation."
The Crimean Tatars plan to hold a national congress, or Kurultay, this weekend to discuss perceived threats to their community and to Ukraine's territorial integrity
The small Tatar community in Belarus says it hopes to meet with visiting Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov to ask for financial help for education purposes and to build a mosque.
RFE/RL asked women from seven countries why they do (or don't) wear the hijab, or Muslim head scarf. Their answers were as varied as the countries they represent: Afghanistan, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, and the Russian republic of Tatarstan.
Officials in Tatarstan say the severe drought affecting the Russian republic this summer will reduce the grain harvest to about one-seventh the total of 2009.
A small group of Tatar nationalist activists have staged a protest in Kazan against what they say are government attempts to subdivide them.
A Tatar lawyer specializing in human rights and freedom of speech cases has filed a lawsuit against police after he says they beat him while in detention.
Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora Association of Human Rights Groups, said lawyer Rustem Valiullin sent a text message to his Agora colleagues informing them he had been detained for administrative violations and refusing to comply with police requests.
Activists in Tatarstan's second-largest city, Chally, are protesting the closure of four programs in Tatar on a local television channel.
Kyiv city authorities have prohibited mass gatherings and meetings by Crimean Tatar organizations, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
There have been mixed reactions in the Russian republic of Tatarstan to the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) ruling that Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia did not violate international law.
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