Ukraine's Reintegration Ministry has announced the creation of the National Corpus of the Crimean Tatar language, a database of texts in Crimean Tatar for the purpose of language research, the ...

KAZAN, Russia — This month, school officials across Tatarstan were ordered to trim by half the number of hours of optional lessons offered in the Tatar language — from four a week down to two. The ...

Ukraine will change the names of the geographic sites in temporarily occupied Crimea to their historical names in the Crimean Tatar language. Source: Ukraine’s Ministry for Reintegration of the ...

A central theme of Kremlin propaganda justifying the Ukraine invasion is the myth of Russians and the Russian language being persecuted in Ukraine. Yet at the same time, in Russia itself, Moscow’s ...

Activists in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan said on May 24 that police had detained Rafik Karimullin, the leader of the Azatliq (Liberty) youth organization, and the former leader of the banned ...

The popular online Tatar language school Ana Tele (The Mother Tongue), which halted operations in June after the international Education First (EF) group left Russia, will resume its courses. The ...

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The second-largest ethnic group in the modern Russian Federation, after the Russians, are the Tatars, Turkic-speaking Sunni Muslims who are indigenous to the Volga and Ural regions, including the ...

It has been almost four years since a presidential decree limiting the study of indigenous languages in the Russian Federation's national republics came into force. This was in 2017 when the ...

KIEV (Reuters) - The silencing of a TV station for the Tatar people in Crimea, annexed by Russia from Ukraine a year ago, sparked an outcry on Friday, with Kiev accusing Moscow of trying to stamp out ...

Mustafa Dzhemilev was a six-month-old baby when Soviet troops uprooted his family from their homeland on the Crimean peninsula, packing them off into exile in Uzbekistan, 80 years ago this week.