Past days in the war zone Ukraine’s east On 3 January, the Russian-led militants violated the ceasefire 3 times, firing automatic and anti-tank grenade launchers. There were no ceasefire violations during 2 January 2021 News flash...
Leaders of the Bashkir national movement have publicly called on Bashkirs not to take part in Russia’s war against Ukraine. In a statement issued by Ruslan Gabbasov, one of the leaders of Bashkort, an organization of the Bashkir...
“Historically,” Khakimov says, “the Turkic peoples formed on the territory of the Turkic khanate … extending from the Caspian to the Danube.” They were “close in culture and language,” and...
In the face of Vladimir Putin’s continuing attacks on the non-Russian republics, including now a call by his supporters to check the Tatarstan Constitution’s legitimacy and the failure of republic elites to fight back, some...
Muslims from Russia’s Middle Volga region who went to fight for the “DNR” and “LNR” in Ukraine were motivated by their sense of belonging to the Russian world Vladimir Putin has talked so much about,...
In October 2022, a few weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles with...
