Dagestan and other mostly Muslim regions. But in Dzhelyal’s case, he and other Tatar activists believe the Kremlin chose “diversion” as a possible pretext for wider persecution of activists ...

Soviet forces under Stalin’s orders deported nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars, the peninsula’s native population, to Central ...

RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service is the only major international news provider reporting in the Tatar and Bashkir languages to audiences in the Russian Federation’s multiethnic, Muslim-majority ...

The media and social networks were flooded with particularly resentful reactions, as if the representative of the Muslims, theologian and political scientist of Tatar origin, even if born in the ...

Last month, Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky unveiled a bill that he said was designed to help preserve the heritage of the tiny minority groups, plus the Tatars, a Muslim people. But by desi ...

During the visit, Tatar Muslim religious leaders visited mosques in Donetsk and Lugansk and met with local imams. In all, they spent three days in the special military operation zone. Putin thanks ...

The Tatars of Poland remain one of the country’s most enduring ethnic minorities. Arriving in the area as early as the 14th century, this group has maintained its own distinctiveness while adapting to ...