Kazan
Kazan Tatars launch websites to promote modernist Islam
June 16, 2010by Paul Goble Tatar Muslims, for more than a century distinguished by their commitment to modernist Islam, have launched two websites to promote that understanding of the faith both within their republic and across the Russian Federation, even as the...
Russia's smoking and drinking chimp
February 26, 2010Reuters picks up a "Komsomolskaya pravda" report on a chimpanzee whose smoking and boozing have landed him in hot water with his Moscow zookeepers. And zoogoers are tired of the shakedowns, too. They're sending Zhora the former circus chimp...
National Republics Resist Moscow on Dropping Sovereignty Reference
June 20, 2009By Paul Goble Three of the four national republics the Russian Supreme Court earlier this month ordered to drop references in their constitutions to republic sovereignty and citizenship are dragging their feet, an indication of both the importance...