A wildfire has ravaged a 16th century Tatar village in Siberia that authorities had planned to turn into a tourist attraction.

Russian authorities are transferring imprisoned Crimean Tatar activists Nariman Dzhelialov and Aziz Akhtemov from occupied Crimea to Minusinsk in eastern Siberia, the news outlet UA.South reported ...

In an ethnic Tatar village in Russia's Omsk region, drinking water comes from the ice of a local lake, which is cut in winter, carried, and stored for year-round use. It's a good business for ...

Soviet dictator Josef Stalin deported 200,000 Tatars to the east, mostly Siberia, in 1944 after claiming falsely that they collaborated with the Nazi invasion of World War II.

How exactly do you look for a civilization that never existed? Usually, civilizations leave behind something: art, artifacts, ...

Lierane was born in Soviet Uzbekistan in 1980 to a family which, like more than 200,000 other Crimean Tatars, was deported en masse to Siberia and Central Asia in 1944 under dictator Josef Stalin.

Among those sent to Uzbekistan and Siberia were the grandparents of actor Akhtem Seitablayev, activist Alim Aliev, and a member of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, Nedim Useinow.

Long-simmering tensions While both Russians and Tatars alike speak of coexisting peacefully, the referendum has exposed long-simmering resentment in the Tatar population.

The research is important for both historians and -- even more -- for microbiologists and medical doctors who want to find genetic markers of susceptibility to various diseases. This project is a ...

After decades of Soviet authorities burning Islamic literature and shutting down Islamic schools, Crimean Tatars were deported in the hundreds of thousands to Central Asia and Siberia in 1944 ...