On Friday evening, May 26, with sunset, Muslims begin Ramadan - the month of fasting, prayer, spiritual testing and good deeds.

The Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tatarstan in the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region Renat Valiullin held a meeting with the Head of the North-West Scientific Center named after I. L. N. Gumilev Shamil Ahmetshin.

In May holidays activists of the Tatarstan Community of Dagestan "Tugan Tel" visited veterans of the war and labor front and congratulated them on the 72nd anniversary of the Great Patriotic War.

From the early morning of May 18, delegates of the VIII All-Russian Forum of Tatar religious figures "National Identity and Religion" began to gather in the building of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of Tatars for registration.

Honorary guests of Sabantui became representatives from 44 regions of Russia, where today the Tatars live. In the Astrakhan region itself, there are now more than 60,000 Tatars, and they are the third largest in the region.

May 13, 2017, the village Shapshi of the Vysokogorsky district will feature a final stage of the Republican festival of Tatar folklore "Iske Kazan tuguruk ueny", in which 52 folklore groups and soloists from 21 regions of the Republic of Tatarstan will take part. In total - about 400 people.

The Tatarstan delegation is headed by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov.

On the name of the chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of Tatars Rinat Zakirov and head of the organization of Tatar women "Ak kalfak" Kadria Idrisova a letter has been received from Penza, expressing gratitude for organization of the 5th World Forum of Tatar Women.

The tasty Wednesday took place on May 3 at the organizers of the spring master class at Penza office "Ak kalfak". Young participants of this event, high school students from the villages of Kamensky district Kobylkino and Kikino had a unique opportunity to learn the secrets of Tatar cuisine, take the experience of the older generation, learn the skill of cooking and enrich a home menu with new recipes.

On April 30, the concert program of the Fergana regional Tatar cultural center at the House of Friendship and Art of Fergana was brightly, colorfully and enthusiastically took place. With cheerful songs, dances and, of course, good and upbeat mood together with other creative collectives of the city they met the spring according to national custom.