For the Georgians of Upper Adjara, there is nothing contradictory in being both a practising Muslim and a patriotic Georgian.

But the US needs to account for the situation of the Crimean Tatars. First, the administration should consistently highlight religious freedom violations in occupied Crimea, especially the persecution ...

Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated changed, according ...

Crimean Tatars, who numbered around a quarter of a million in Ukraine's last official census in 2001, can do little more than watch, wait and hope.

"Crimea will remain with Russia," President Donald Trump said as he set the agenda for talks to end of the Ukraine war. But what do the indigenous inhabitants of the peninsula, the Crimean Tatars ...

Most who are married say their spouse shares their religion, while 26% don’t. Read about interreligious marriages, spouses discussing religion and more. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research ...

Nigmatullin even states that ‘without the Tatars, Jews, Caucasians and others, one cannot understand Russia itself’, seen as an ‘all-encompassing civilisation’ and not mono-ethnic, as ...

This word actually came into Turkish through the Tatars in the 18th and 19th centuries, when seeking to protect their religious identity (Islam) in the Christian Russian Empire, the Tatars decided to ...

Through fasting during Ramadan, Crimean Tatars were able to hold onto their religion without formal, public places of worship – a private, quiet echo of historical religious traditions.

And while the majority of Crimean Tatars remain in the occupied peninsula where their culture is suppressed, the presence of two national minorities among Ukraine's top military leadership is a ...

A Russian military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced four Crimean Tatars to lengthy prison terms on "terrorism" charges, the human rights group Crimean Solidarity announced on May 31.

A Russian court has sentenced Raif Fevziev, a Crimean Tatar local imam, or religious leader and civic activist to 17 years’ harsh-regime imprisonment. The sentence, which, as his lawyer noted, is ...