Favorite holiday of Tatars and Bashkirs, Sabantui, has been organized by the regional Tatar national cultural center “Idel” in our city, held in the banquet hall of the regional charity fund “Mahalla”. The celebration was attended by over 200 people. A festive ceremony has been opened by Mullah of Tatar Diaspora of Jizzak region Abyi Rizvan, who read out a ...

Participants of a unique international project "March for Peace and Harmony" Path to the origins of the 2014 " has finished hiking part along the coast of the Black Sea in Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria. Ahead of the final stage along the territory of Greece.

From August 1 to 5, 2014, in Kazan, a regular VI World Forum of Tatar Youth to be held. Participation in the Forum will take more than 600 representatives of the Tatar youth from 24 foreign countries and regions of the Russian Federation and Tatarstan.

Iftar – breaking of fast, an evening meal in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, during which, as is known, believers keep a strict fast – Uraza. Fasting, in turn, is one of the five pillars of the religion of Islam, and is prescribed to all the adults and healthy Muslims. In a hadith, the following words: “For every Muslim ...

In the city of Kopejsk a peculiar association with the interesting name “Kurshelek” is operating. An amateur club association “Kurshelek-neighborhood” was founded in 2011. Reason for uniting of the like-minded people was a will to preserve cultural traditions of the Tatar people, which subsequently resulted in creating of original, Tatar association “Kurshelek”, which means “neighborhood. Initial tasks pf the association ...

Today in Kazan, at the Menzhinsky House of Culture, a civil funeral of the Hero of the Soviet Union Sabir Ahtjamov has been held. RT President Rustam Minnikhanov, RT State Councillor Mintimer Shaimiev, RT State Council Chairman Farid Mukhametshin, RT First Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Pesoshin, Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshin, chairman of the Republican public organization of veterans (disabled) war ...

July 16, President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, being with a working visit to Moscow, handed over Gratitude of the RT President and the medal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia Ravil Akhmetshin Appreciation.

July 17, at the NCC "Kazan", a presentation of the II International TV Song Contest «TURKVISION» is to be held.

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.