Tatarstan
1399 Aug 12 |
The Battle of the Vorskla River (Ukraine) was a great battle in the medieval history of Eastern Europe. It was fought between the Tatars, under Edigu and Temur Qutlugh, and the armies of Tokhtamysh and Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania. The battle ended in a decisive Tatar victory. Links: Ukraine, Lithuania, Mongolia, Tatarstan |
1552 Aug |
Ivan IV of Russia began his conquest of Kazan, Tatarstan, and Astrakhan in the Volga delta. Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, fell to Ivan in September. Links: Russia, Tatarstan, Khazar |
1944 May 18 |
The Soviet Union began the expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea. They were accused of collaborating with the Germans. Stalin deported some 250,000 Tatars from Crimea to Uzbekistan. They did not being to return home until the fall of the USSR. Links: Uzbekistan, Russia, Ukraine, USSR, Tatarstan, Crimea |
1986 |
Mustafa Dzhemilev, a leader of the Tatar community in Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, was released from a Soviet prison. He was jailed in 1983 for trying to execute the will of his father to be buried in Crimea. Links: Russia, Ukraine, USSR, Tatarstan, Crimea |
1989 |
Mintimer Shaimiyev became First Secretary of Tatar Regional CPSU Committee in Kazan, Tatarstan. Links: Russia, Tatarstan |
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1990 Aug 30 |
Tatarstan proclaimed sovereignty. This was not recognized by Russia. The declaration on the Republic of Tatarstan state sovereignty was adopted immediately after the declaration on the sovereignty of the Russian Federation, which provided the peoples' right "to self-determination in the national-state and national-cultural forms they have chosen." Links: Russia, USSR, Tatarstan |
1991 Jun 12 |
Mintimer Shaimiev (b.1937) became president of the Muslim republic of Tatarstan, located within Russia. He continued as president until the expiration of his 4th term in 2010. Links: Tatarstan |
1996 Jul 5 |
In Tatarstan a new law was enacted that will charge $800 for insulting the president. Subsequent offenses could cost $1400. A printed insult could cost $6,000. Links: Tatarstan |
2012 Jul |
In Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan assassins shot dead Islamic leader Valiulla Yakupov and nearly killed the chief mufti, Ildus Faizov, with a car bomb. Over half of the republic’s people are Sunni Muslims. Links: Russia, Tatarstan |
2012 Aug 8 |
Russian prosecutors said a reclusive sect in Kazan, Tatarstan, that literally went underground to stop contact with the outside world, kept 27 children in dark and unheated cells, many of them for more than a decade. The children have been freed and the parents charged with child abuse. Child abuse charges were brought against members of the sect and leader Faizrakhman Satarov (83), who declared himself a Muslim prophet in contradiction with the principles of Islam, has also been charged with negligence. Links: Russia, Tatarstan |
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2014 May 7 |
Poland awarded a prize for championing democracy and human rights to Mustafa Dzhemilev, a leader of the Tatar community in Ukraine's Crimea peninsula who says he was barred from the region after Russia annexed it. Links: Ukraine, Poland, Tatarstan |
2014 May 20 |
The UN refugee agency said at least 10,000 people have been driven from their homes since the start of the Ukraine crisis, with Crimean Tatars the hardest-hit. Links: Ukraine, UN, Tatarstan, Crimea |