In Tatarstan the VII All-Russian Spassky fair of folk crafts is being held. The first buyers appeared to be the chairman of Tatarstan Parliament Farid Mukhametshin and head of Yelabuzhsky region Gennady Emelyanov. Spasskaya Fair has become the hallmark of Yelabuga in 2008. The organizers have tried to recreate the atmosphere of a bustling fair here of XIX century with ...

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 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 ...

In Kazan, a new book by writer, candidate of historical sciences Fauzia Bayramova “Sakhalin Island and the Tatars.” has been published. In 2012, she was almost a month in Sakhalin, visited 8 cities, 2 villages where Tatars live, worked in archives, collecting enormous amount of material about the history of the island of Sakhalin. The book depicts in detail period ...

June 15, 2014, our delegation from Tatarstan visited Tomsk to attend the Federal Sabantui.

June 10, 2014, at 14.00, an exhibition "Colors of Sabantui", which is being organized for the 28th anniversary of opening of the museum opens at G.Tukai Literary Museum.

If today nature enjoys a warm sunny day, it becomes happily twice – because the first day of summer in many countries is celebrated as the International Children’s Day. This holiday familiar to many Russians as the International Day of Protection of Children. International Children’s Day – one of the oldest international holidays . The decision to hold was made ...

May 26, 2014, in preparation for the V All-Russian Forum of Tatar religious figures “National identity and Islam” in Kazan a round table discussion on the concept of “Islam and the Tatar world” was held. It was attended by Chairman of the Volga Religious Board of Muslims Muqaddas Bibarsov, chairman of the Khanty- Mansiysk Autonomous District of RBM Takhir Samatov ...

Mejlis delegation today met with the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov . The meeting in Kazan Kremlin was attended by Chairman of the Board of Majlis Refat Chubarov, Acting Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea Lenur Islyamov, Deputy chairman of Majlis, deputy of Bakhchisaraysky People’s Council Akhtem Chiygoz , chairman of the district administration of Bakhchsarai region ...