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Yazidi kids

Yazidi refugee kids near Dohuk (Northern Iraq), 2017. They had to leave their homes to flee from ISIS.

Damir

Damir is working for a company producing Tatar traditional dresses and tubeteikas (traditional Tatar heads for men) for many years. According to him, Putin and other important politicians have bought their tubeteikas and worn them on public occasions in Tatarstan. While he himself prefers the drab post-Soviet uniform of older…

Erischat

Erischat works in the Märcani Mosque in the old Tatar quarter of Kazan. He says that his family always kept their faith, also during Soviet times, when it was hard to be openly religious. Indeed, religious practice of Muslims as well as Christians was suppressed by the communist authorities and…