Malakhova has been released after serving her full four-and-a-half-year sentence in a women's prison in Russia's Krasnodar ...
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Kazan Where the Volga meets the Ganges

Perched gracefully at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka rivers, Kazan is a city that quietly asserts its own identity. It is neither Russian nor entirely Asian, its heart beats to its own rhythm ...
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KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) - Not far from glitzy boulevards where an oil boom has sent up stadiums and high-rises overlooking the Volga River, women in headscarves wander through Islamic bookstores ...
This article examines the ‘global life’ of a teacher school that Russian imperial officials opened in 1876 to Russify the tsarist empire’s Turkic-speaking Muslim subjects in the Volga-Ural region.