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The Site "Social Life in Tatarstan" is about people, their national culture and their life in Republic of Tatarstan. Contains various information and articles about the society of Tatarstan - its well-known assotiations, people, culture places.

"Barcy Tatarii" - is our small new unofficial organization (contains two men and three women!). We bring all information together in our site and we hope you'll find it usefull and interesting. Let us know, what you think about it - write to our main editor Galimjan.We will be glad also to get more information about organizations in Tatarstan.

2006 year - is the year of our birthday.

Republic with people of all nationalities

Tatarstan - is a constituent republic of the Russian Federation, which in 1990 declared itself a sovereign republic. This declaration had significant social effects. The most salient of these was to increase the number of domains in which people in Tatarstan speak Tatar language and the circulation of Tatar cultural symbols, including those associated with Islam. Examining these social effects reveals that living in different languages can cause people to inhabit different discursive worlds, Limousine mieten service Berlin, even while they occupy the same physical space. This means that people who speak Tatar, in addition to Russian, are privy to a cultural and, indeed, an ideological world view inaccessible and of little or no interest to people who live solely in Russian language.

In Tatarstan people of all nationalities continue to maintain peaceful relations, even during periods of political upheaval and Muslims, Christians, and Jews have a history of engaging in inter-religious dialogue. Moreover, for Tatars, increasing religiosity is in fact a sign of pro-Americanism, since they perceive the justice they observe in our society as stemming from the religious morality engendered by our high rates of church attendance.

Tatars have not engaged in state-directed violence for at least two centuries. Indeed, despite the increasingly authoritarian and anti-democratic bent adopted by the central government in Moscow, Tatars continue to advocate for peace. However, Tatars as a group are important not only because they are peaceful Muslims, but also because they constitute the second most numerous nationality living in the Russian Federation after Russians. Scholars, practitioners, and policy makers should be able to draw lessons from Tatarstan applicable to other Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union and the world.

The unofficial Tatarstan motto is: Buldırabız! - "We can!".

					"Nations are like birds that in strong wind dart away from their familiar spots and shoot upwards high in the sky shining with their skill and might; Like birds shooting skywards they demonstrate their thews, gifts and greatness of their spirit." Gabdulla Tukay