Police have detained two activists in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan and ordered them not to mark the day of Commemoration of Tatars who died during the 1552 siege of Kazan by Russian troops ...

At the time it was the capital of the Kazan Khanate. Four and a half centuries later the authorities decided to rebuild it. The opening of the mosque took place on June 24, 2005 in honor of Kazan ...

Dozens of activists in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Tatarstan region, have commemorated the Tatars killed during the city's siege by Russian troops in 1552, despite the refusal by authorities to ...

In the 18th century, the Crimean peninsula was transferred from the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire. We explain this complicated process in 9 simple steps. The Crimean Khanate was once a part ...

Built on a site inhabited since very ancient times, the Kazan Kremlin dates back to the Islamic period in the history of Volga Bulgaria, the Golden Horde and the Kazan Khanate. In the 10th-13th ...

The Cathedral, with its extensive cycles of mural paintings, realised in a relatively short period of time, reflects the ambitious cultural and political programme of the Russian State in the recently ...

Then, as the Golden Horde itself collapsed, a separate Kazan Khanate seceded, only to be annexed by Russia in the middle of the 16th century. Islam remains important in public life. Kazan is home to ...

Kazan, Tatarstan – Okay, this isn’t really Olympics-related, but while I wandered around this city, the site of the future 2013 Universiade Games, I came across som… ...