In his letter,  Head of the American Tatar Association Orkhan Agish thanks the organizers and participants of the festival "Uzgaresh Zhile" ("Wind of Changes"). According to him, the festival was a real celebration for representatives of the Tatar communities of North America, who were able to hear their favorite songs and popular works of famous composers in their native language live.

The forum participants from Moscow, Ufa, Yekaterinburg, Orenburg, Samara, Chelyabinsk, Mari El and almost all regions of Tatarstan gathered for an exciting six-day rally. All of them are from 18 to 30 years old.

January 28 at the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore  after  O.E. Kler, House of Poklevsky-Kosell, the first event was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the TASSR, amely: the grand opening of the traveling exhibition “Visiting Tatars”.

On January 29, at 19:00, the Triangle Club of Cinema and Media Arts fans (Khudozhestvenny Central Exhibition Complex, 105 Kuybysheva St., Samara) invites every  one to the pre-premiere screening of the film Kire (The Stubborn).

In Tomsk, a new educational express-course “Tomsk Tatars: history, culture, religion”  has been    developed. It is designed to improve the skills of practicing guides in the city of Tomsk - museum workers, tour operators, as well as individual entrepreneurs in the field of tourism and hospitality.

This year, Elifba celebrates her 55th birthday.

The administration of Astrakhan extended for two weeks a survey on the installation of a monument to Ivan the Grozny  in connection with a "wide public resonance ." The vote on  attitude of citizens to the installation of a monument to Tsar Ivan IV the Grozny (Terrible) in Astrakhan, announced in mid-December last year, will last until February 3.

January 29 at  the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore  an exhibition "Visiting Tatars" from the collection of the Yelabuga State Museum-Reserveis to open.

A solemn mourning ceremony of laying wreaths and flowers at the  Motherland  Mother   Monument   dedicated to the 76th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade was held on the territory of the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery.

On February 1, the KARO.Ap project, the «Cyclops Production» film company and the Vremya Kino directorate will present at  the Russian capital a special screening of the Tatarstan comedy Kire (stubborn).