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…
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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…
Diana was born in 1944 in the small town of Salonta in nowadays north-western Romania. She studied Industrial Chemistry at the Polytechnic University in Timişoara. At the time when she met her future husband Klaas from Western Germany, she was department head in a rubber company in Pitești.
Von den beeindruckenden Wallanlagen um den alten Teil der nordzyprischen Hafenstadt Famagusta bis zum sogenannten Palmenstrand sind es nur wenige Gehminuten. Doch nicht der fast weiße Sand und das türkisblaue Wasser sind die Besonderheiten dieses eigentlich malerischen Strandabschnitts. Es sind die Hotelruinen, deren zerfallene Gemäuer hinter den Sonnenschirmen steil emporragen. Sie sind die stillen Zeugen des Zypernkonflikts.