The resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan has approved a plan of the main activities of the program "Kazan - the cultural capital of the Turkic world in 2014".

All the fans of Tatar popular music are expected on January 11 at the City Art Center. Event organizers of Balakovsky Tatar-Bashkir National Cultural Center “Miras” are confident that the concert of Saratov group “Sarytau” will afford pleasure to the audience.

The second round of the third competition of readers of the best expressive reading of the works of the great Tatar poet, hero of the Soviet Union Musa Jalil, which was held in Central library, attracted the participation from more than 20 schools in the town. 62 young Zlatoustovtsers represented creativity of M. Jalil, competing in two categories – Russian ...

In the village Ulkundy of Duvan region , Bashkortstan, a bust to outstanding Tatar songwriter Ahmed Erikei unveiled. Opening of the sculpture took place on the day of the 111th anniversary of his birth. Admirers of the poet, the authorities, the public , literary and media came for the opening ceremony of the bust. On the same day, in Ulkundy ...

It is likely, a Tatar cinema may appear in Kazan, which will show the films only in the Tatar language, a website of the newspaper Kazanskiye vedomosti reports. This was stated at a meeting of the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov with journalists. Similar cinemas successfully operate abroad. According to the participants of the meeting that will help popularize Tatar ...

December 13, at 15.00, the exhibition of Kul Gali “Kyyssa and Yusuf” – a hymn to love”, to 780th anniversary of the poem The Legend of Yusuf will open in the museum of Islamic culture. The exhibition is devoted to the role and place in the spiritual life of the Tatar people of the literary monument of XIII century, the ...

Amateur folk collective toured across Tatarstan towns and regions.

December 26, a famous musician Aidar Gainullin gives a concert dedicated to the beloved in Russia New Year’s holiday at the Theatrical hall of the Moscow International House of Music. The most popular favorite tango melodies will sound from the stage. The spectators catch a happy opportunity to hear a magical music of Astor Piazzolla , Angel Viloldo, Rodolfo Falvo, ...

Report by Chairman of Executive Committee World Congress of Tatars R.Z. Zakirov at an expanded meeting of Executive Committee of the World Congress of Tatars (7 December 2013) Dear compatriots! Dear Colleagues, Summing up the year – one of the established traditions of the World Congress of Tatars. The expanded meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of Tatars is ...

Day of national cuisine took place in the MGIMO. The event, which is held for the sixth year, was attended by about a thousand students from various Moscow universities, as well as representatives of foreign embassies, authorized representative of the RF subjects and media. Tatarstan at this festival was presented by MGIMO Tatar club. The exhibition – presentation gave the ...