Fasting, praying and eating according to religious rules is impossible in some jails, ex-prisoners and groups say.

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

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

Sofia Gubaidulina, a Soviet-born composer whose experiments with tone and form left her blacklisted by authorities before she ...

Sofia Gubaidulina’s work, with its thorniness and religious themes, put her at odds with the Soviet government.

Aydea will open Friday, March 14, bringing the restaurant’s much-lauded Eastern Russian cuisine to a second outpost ...

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

He urged everyone in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARRM) to offer sacrifices and perform “charitable acts of mercy for our less fortunate brethren during the fasting ...

Elina Novokhatska at the ‘Memorial to the Genocide of the Crimean Tatars’ in Kyiv. Aqmescit is the native name of her hometown, Simferopol. Photo: Bradley Stafford. Elina Novokhatska was born in 1998 ...

As many as 30 Tajiks have been implicated in IS-related terrorist attacks and plots beyond Muslim-majority Tajikistan’s borders since January 2024, including in the United States and Russia.

Every day. For an entire month. It’s Ramadan, and it’s the holiest month of the Muslim calendar. In 2025, it runs roughly from February 28 to March 30. But what if you’re not a Muslim and ...