Before Russia's heightened tensions with the West over Ukraine, the Russian republic of Tatarstan had been marketing itself as a tourist destination where "East meets West" and "all worlds come together as one."
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A woman walks past a mosque in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Muslim autonomic republic of Tatarstan, on July 16.
