RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service is the only major international news provider reporting in the Tatar and Bashkir languages to audiences in the Russian Federation’s multiethnic, Muslim-majority Volga-Ural region.
The prosecutor-general of Russia's Tatarstan region has asked a judge at a high-profile terrorism trial to sentence the defendants in the case to prison terms ranging from 22 years to life.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny says he's opposed to extending a power-sharing agreement between Tatarstan and Moscow, calling it "atavistic."
Several hundred people, most of them clients of three banks in Russia's Tatarstan republic whose licenses have been revoked, have marched to the government headquarters to deliver a protest letter to the republic's leadership.
A Russian court has convicted a youth activist of terrorism-related offenses for a social-media post praising the mass killing at a gay nightclub in Florida last year, but declined to sentence him to prison.
A Russian prosecutor called for a three-year prison sentence for a youth activist from the Tatarstan region who is on trial over a social-media post praising the killing of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida last year.
A youth activist in Russia's Tatarstan region is being tried on terror-related charges over a social-media post praising the killing of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida last year.
Two activists picketed the regional headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Russia's Tatarstan region on January 23, demanding it take steps to give consumers access to their accounts in two troubled banks.
Soccer's world governing body, FIFA, has rejected complaints from environmentalists about the construction of a stadium parking lot for the 2018 World Cup in Kazan, saying the project is not damaging the environment.
Activists in the Russian region of Tatarstan have urged the head of soccer's world governing body, FIFA President Gianni Infantino, to help save a grove of trees that is being cut down in order to build a stadium parking lot for the 2018 World Cup.
A high-profile terrorism trial has kicked off in Russia's mostly Muslim-populated region of Tatarstan.
Famous Tatar singer-dancer Rezeda Ganiullina has apologized after Muslims across Russia condemned a recent video of hers that was filmed on the grounds of a mosque.
A court in Russia's western city of Tver has sentenced a man to 10 months of community service on charges of insulting law-enforcement authorities in a video he placed on the Internet.
An ethnic Tatar man in Russia's Tatarstan region has been sentenced to six years and three months in a maximum security prison for killing an ethnic Russian doctor.
A court in Russia's republic of Tatarstan has sentenced the chairman of the Tatar Public Center to three years in jail.
Aside from Vladimir Putin, the head of Tatarstan is the only president left in the Russian Federation. An election on September 13 is turning into a referendum on his right to keep that title.
The Supreme Court of the Russian republic of Bashkortostan has upheld the sentence of a local civil rights activist.
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry early on March 13 raised the confirmed death toll from a fire at a shopping center in the city of Kazan to 12 after finding more bodies in the debris.
Rescue workers are searching for as many as 15 people who could be trapped under rubble after a fire at a shopping center in the Russian city of Kazan.
Russia's Grand Mufti Ravil Gainutdin says freedom of expression must have its limits.
A prominent Tatar activist who faces trial on hate-crimes charges supporters say are politically motivated has begun a hunger strike.
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