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The Government of Independent Tatarstan in Exile received with deep concern and indignation the news of the foiling of an attempted assassination of Ahmad Ahmadov — President of the World Congress of the Peoples of…
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Kamil Sukaev, Ambassador of the Government of Independent Tatarstan in Exile to the United States, conveyed Prime Minister Rafis Kashapov’s greetings to the Second Congress of Supporters of Buryatia’s Independence and called for closer cooperation between the Tatar and Buryat-Mongol movements.
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On September 13 in London, the VATANÇI movement and the Government of Independent Tatarstan in Exile signed a cooperation agreement. In March, a district court in Kazan designated the movement an extremist organization; the case materials also referred to its cooperation with the Government in Exile.
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Thirty-five years ago, on September 6, 1991, power in Chechnya passed to the Executive Committee of the National Congress of the Chechen People. Six months later, parliament adopted a Constitution enshrining independence. Why this date also matters for Tatarstan.
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Garry Kasparov calls Ukraine’s victory a condition for the collapse of Russia’s imperial project, while the Free Russia Forum’s Strasbourg Declaration explicitly recognizes the right of national republics and peoples to self-determination. We explain where our positions coincide, where ours goes further, and why this cooperation has continued for years.
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An Appeal to All Supporters of Tatarstan’s Independence Dear supporters of Tatarstan’s independence, We invite everyone who would like to record a short video message, approximately one minute long, to mark the Day of…
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On August 24, 2026, representatives of the Government of Independent Tatarstan in Exile joined events in Frankfurt am Main and Warsaw marking the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence and expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people.
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Tatarstan pumps oil, refines it at two plants and sees those plants come under attack. Yet motor fuel rose 25.4% in a year — a record for the entire observation period. Owning a resource without having power over it is worth nothing. That is the definition of a colony.
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Tatarstan’s trade with China has grown more than twelvefold in a decade. Chinese provinces come to Kazan, forums are held in Kazan and plants are built in Tatarstan — but Russia signs the agreements. The republic provides everything except the right to negotiate in its own name.
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Thirty-six years ago Tatarstan was told to take as much sovereignty as it could swallow. It was taken — but not by the republic. Records, documents and questions that no independent institution in Tatarstan has answered.
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Medvedev said those who left Russia and wish it defeat would receive no forgiveness. The formula is deliberately elastic: almost anyone can be placed under the label. We explain how it works — and why forgiveness is not the currency in which we deal with Moscow.
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On August 22, Tatarstan spent almost eight hours under alert, while Kazan airport remained restricted until noon. Four days earlier, the republic’s leader announced that Tatarstan was to become one of the centers of Russia’s unmanned economy. The role could hardly be more fitting: live under drones while training the workforce for them.
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Tatarstan Culture Days opened in Moscow with flowers laid at the monument to Gabdulla Tukay. Back in the republic, the number of schools teaching in Tatar fell from 610 in 2022 to 591 in 2024, while federal curricula reduced first-grade hours for native-language study.
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In Nizhnekamsk, where thirteen people were killed eleven days earlier, officials ceremonially launched a project worth around one hundred billion rubles. The system assembled that money and infrastructure in months. The problem of inaccessible shelters remains unresolved. This is not about a lack of money — it is about whose life makes it into the budget.
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Kazan has opened a School for Beginning Deputies for veterans of Russia’s war against Ukraine who already sit on local councils. A republic that has lost thousands of sons in this war is now being supplied with officials from the same war. This has a name: the militarization of power.
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Tubylgy Tau has seven centuries of history, fewer than five hundred residents — and at least seven funerals from this war. One in every 19 working-age men has been killed. More than 9,600 natives of Tatarstan have now been verified dead.
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Fuel is available at only about 28% of the country’s monitored filling stations. Kazakhstan is sending gasoline as ‘humanitarian aid,’ some of it made from Tatneft crude. Tatarstan pumps the oil and faces the risks; the empire answers with rationing.
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The head of the republic says the victims would have survived had they taken ‘elementary measures.’ By that logic, even a five-year-old girl failed to do enough. Let us record what this sounds like: not the voice of Tatarstan’s government, but that of Moscow’s administrator.
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Tatarstan is now awakened not by alarm clocks but by emergency alerts: nine cities under threat, three airports closed, and mosques repurposed for wartime warnings. Moscow brought the war into our home and ordered silence. It will not get it.
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The Kremlin folded Tatarstan’s oil into its war — and with its own hands turned our cities into military targets. We call things by their names: this is the price of dependence. And it has only one solution — independence.
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A criminal case over a song more than 130 years old. A state that fears pensioners and 19th-century melodies is not strong. It is a diagnosis — and a verdict on a system Tatarstan must leave behind.
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In one week, 44 more natives of Tatarstan were added to the list of identified war dead. The decision to wage war was made in the Kremlin. Our cities and villages pay the bill. This is colonial arithmetic — and only independence can stop it.
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An anonymous Telegram channel reports a meeting at Alabuga about mobilization after September. There is no confirmation — and we say that first. But this is confirmed: Moscow has already turned Alabuga into a military facility and devalued the Kremlin’s word so thoroughly that no one trusts its denials.
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In Kazan, four women who spoke out against biometrics in schools have reportedly gone out of contact. Among them are a pediatrician, a mother of many children, and a scholar. The state is silent. We are not.
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The Government of Independent Tatarstan in Exile, led by Prime Minister Rafis Kashapov, warmly congratulates the Idel.Realii team on this important 10th anniversary. We wish Idel.Realii continued growth, prosperity, new achievements and, of course, even more important, objective and independent reporting.
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Tatar Council coordinator Ruslan Aisin appealed to the German authorities to grant political asylum to Raushan Gizatullin, who, he says, would face political prosecution, torture and a lengthy prison sentence if returned to Russia.
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The Government of Independent Tatarstan in Exile thanks Ruslan Gabbasov for publicly supporting the open letter calling on Germany to grant political asylum to Raushan Gizatullin.
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The UN called on democratic countries to assist opposition activists in exile. The UN sharply criticized a new Russian law, known as the “civil death” law, targeting opposition activists who have been sentenced in absentia or fined under political articles in the Russian Federation…
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We, representatives of national movements, civic organizations, civil initiatives, democratic associations, and governments in exile, urgently appeal for political asylum to be granted to Raushan Ildarovich Gizatullin ,…
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Recently, a representative of the Russian people from Russia approached us with this question—and indeed, such people can join our work. To provide a complete picture of the interaction between Russians and the Tatar national movement in Tatarstan, I will cite several…
Read publicationThe article argues that Russia’s opposition needs a clear and responsible position on deimperialization, Ukraine, and the future political structure of the region.
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A trilingual remembrance of the defenders of Kazan and the historical memory associated with 15 October 1552.
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Commentary on Türkiye’s regional policy, the rights of Turkic peoples under Russian rule, and the political idea of wider Turkic cooperation.
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A memorial event titled ‘I lived for you, Belarus’ brought together participants in Warsaw to honour poet Larisa Heniush and her place in Belarusian historical memory.
Read publicationThe commentary compares current assumptions about Russia’s permanence with attitudes before the Soviet collapse and argues for deimperialization and decolonization.
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The statement challenges the legitimacy of forthcoming State Duma elections and links electoral participation to responsibility for earlier military campaigns.
Read publicationCommentary on European security cites historical Russian military defeats and argues for a more direct response to aggression against neighbouring peoples and states.
Read publicationA response to a message supporting Tatarstan’s independence considers language knowledge, integration, and the responsibilities of Russian-speaking residents in Kazakhstan and Tatarstan.
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A letter from Ukraine calls for the release of Salavat Vishnyakov and connects his case with support for the freedom of the Tatar people.
Read publicationA commemorative statement recalls the courage and resistance of the Chechen people during the First Chechen War and honours those who died.
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The publication reports an offer for Nafis Kashapov to conduct public activity from Türkiye and considers the country’s possible role in the movement’s international work.
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A short cultural publication sharing a musical tribute to Tatar singer Gabdelfat Safin.
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Commentary on Garry Kasparov’s support for dismantling Russia’s imperial structure and the disagreements this creates within the Russian opposition.
Read publicationThe publication discusses proposals from Türkiye, cooperation among Turkic organizations, and the practical conditions required for stronger political and civic coordination.
Read publicationThe appeal urges peoples governed by Russia to resist a possible new mobilization and frames military recruitment as a colonial burden placed on the regions.
Read publicationThe Government aligns itself with arguments by the president of the Congress of Indigenous Peoples of Eurasia concerning imperial violence, nuclear weapons, and Indigenous rights.
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A brief commentary calls for accountability for military violence in Moldova, Azerbaijan, Ichkeria, Georgia, Syria, and Ukraine and discusses reports of an explosion in Moscow.
Read publicationThe publication responds to claims about PACE and post-Russian political movements, arguing that propaganda misrepresents decolonization initiatives and their participants.
Read publicationThe publication describes a proposal by Tatars in Poland to approach Prime Minister Donald Tusk and discusses possible political and public steps toward recognition.
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A profile of honorary adviser Vil Mirzayanov recounts his scientific work, public disclosure of the Novichok programme, prosecution, and later public activity.
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A statement argues that renewed relations with the United States require concrete commitments to human rights, the rule of law, democratic institutions, and Euro-Atlantic cooperation.
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The commentary interprets reported bank withdrawals as a sign of declining public and business confidence and considers the possibility of a wider financial crisis.
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A short video statement by Rafis Kashapov affirms the Government’s commitment to freedom for the Tatar people and an independent Tatarstan.
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The publication reports a 21-year sentence in a treason case and presents the case within a broader argument about political prosecution in Tatarstan.
Read publicationThe report describes Armenian debate over control of the railway network and a possible demand that Russia pay for its use.
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A personal reflection explains the meaning of Captive Nations Week for someone from Tatarstan and connects it with solidarity among peoples affected by colonialism and imperialism.
Read publicationThe publication introduces a collection of articles from 1999–2015, including passages on war, Russian politics, Ukraine, and references to Rafis Kashapov.
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The publication discusses persecution of Uyghurs in China and a proposal for Rafis Kashapov to meet representatives of the East Turkestan government in exile.
Read publicationThe statement reviews meetings between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and leaders in the United Kingdom and United States and reiterates support for Ukraine.
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The report describes public actions in several countries during Captive Nations Week, including a demonstration by Kamil Sukaev near the United Nations building in New York.
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