The head of the Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra has come under fire for invoking beet salad in what are being seen as disparaging remarks about Tatar classical music. Aleksandr Sladkovsky, the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Zulfia “Zulya” Kamalova was of Volga Tatar background and lived for the last 33 years of her life in Australia immigrating to Tasmania ...

With President Vladimir Putin pushing his vision of Russia as a bastion of “traditional” national values, ethnic and sexual minorities have found themselves increasingly marginalized in a country ...

The bulbous brass samovar on a table in the Tatar-Turkish village of Osmaniye is definitely not a historic relic. Nearly 120 years after its arrival in Turkey from Russia, villagers say it is one of ...

These days we are very accustomed to mixed sonic salads, to multicultural feasts of ethnic reinterpretation. To some, this act may be just such a multi-herbal mixture, but to my taste here is a flavor ...

Polish folk artist Karolina Cicha, singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and one-woman-orchestra is trying to use the language of music to overcome historical prejudice toward minority groups in ...