KAZAN, Russia -- By day, Alia Sabirova wraps her arm around her 3-year-old daughter Sufia and shares a good book. By night, she's in the spotlight, belting out Latin-fusion-influenced songs to throngs ...

KAZAN, Russia -- Tatar language classes are no longer mandatory in Russia's Tatarstan region, a senior official has announced. Tatarstan Prosecutor-General Ildus Nafikov said on November 29 that ...

"It was with the return [of Crimea] to the motherland that the Crimean-Tatar language, for the first time, was granted [official] state status on par with -- I reiterate -- on par with Russian." ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. All but one of Crimea's independent Tatar-language media outlets, ...

Crimea's independent Tatar-language television station ATR went off the air Wednesday after Russian authorities refused to give it a broadcasting license. Following Russia's annexation of Crimea from ...

It has been almost four years since a presidential decree limiting the study of indigenous languages in the Russian Federation's national republics came into force. This was in 2017 when the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Russian authorities have forced Crimean Tatars to become Russian ...