Tag Archives: Tatar language

Bitter Fruits of the Fern

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Avram Lyon

This afternoon, Naberezhnye Chelny’s Tatar theater came to Kamal’s small stage with their performance of Rawil Sabyr’s Bitter Fruits of the Fern, a play that treats some of the most difficult and some of the most frequently discussed topics in Russian … Continue reading →

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Defining nation

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Avram Lyon

Last fall, in a small park near our apartment, I noticed Bulgarist graffiti on a Soviet mural of Lenin. The proclamation that “We are Bulgars, and not Tatars!” has a long history behind it of the changing shape of Tatar … Continue reading →

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