I was reading about Sara Sadiqova , "the Tatar nightingale", on Wikipedia, and discovered through sarasadykova.ru that this beaut...

I guess we at Chirayliq have to start paying attention to the European football championships in Austria and Switzerland next year. Turkey q...

Every other post seems to be about a Tatar lately, but when I was researching Rustem Hayroudinoff before, I checked out the "List of Ta...

Well, we already have a tag called "Stalin", and Stalin used to be quite the babe when he was young, so it was only a question of ...

Our avid reader Ilshat suggested another nice guy to be featured on Chirayliq, though his e-mail has been lying around in my mailbox for a v...

Malen'kye Lyudi by Nariman Turebayev (2003) is a movie about "little people", friends Bek and Max, who share an apartment in ...

Extracts from my short biography at historia.ainurin.net: - born Theodor Antonius Tugai in St Petersburg August 23, 1912, childhood in Latvi...