Muslim inmates constitute roughly the same percentage of the prison population – 31,000 out of 206,000, Russian Mufti Albir ...

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 ...

The Turkish Foreign Ministry released a statement on the 11th anniversary of the annexation of Ukraine’s autonomous Crimea ...

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

KYIV - Thousands of Muslims in Ukraine observe the Islamic holy month of Ramadan despite the ongoing war with Russia. For ...

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 ...

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 ...