In the Year of Culture and within the program "Kazan - the cultural capital of the Turkic world in 2014" Republican center of development of traditional culture with the assistance of the RT Ministry of Culture and the International Organization of Turkic Culture (TURKSOY), July 16-19, 2014, International Scientific and Practical conference "Intangible cultural heritage of the Turkic peoples as object of preservation is scheduled." The Conference will be held July 17-18, 2014, at the hotel complex "Bilyar Palace".

July 17, 2014, National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan will mark 182 years since the birth of the collector, archaeologist, numismatist Andrei Fedorovich Likhachev, whose collections had formed the basis of the museum.

After parting with communist ideas Russia did not abandon form opposing itself to the Western world, particularly, foremost ion in issues of the NATO expansion, and today in connection with the Ukrainian events. However, alongside within the country, from time to time, heated chauvinistic sentiments in the form of attacks on the sovereignty of Tatarstan, sometimes as a campaign against ...