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.
A Tatar activist says he has been fired from his job after helping organize protests against the jailing of a fellow activist in Russia's Tatarstan region.
Protesters in four regions of Russian that are home to non-Russian ethnic groups have demonstrated to demand the release of a jailed Tatar activist, Rafis Kashapov.
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves has accused Russia of suppressing the culture of its Finno-Ugric minorities by decreasing education in their traditional languages.
The family of prominent Tatar activist Rafis Kashapov says he has been detained by security officials who also raided his home in the city Russian city of Chally.
A well-known Tatar writer, activist and the leader of the self-proclaimed pan-Tatar Milli Mejlis (National Assembly), Fauziya Bayramova (eds: a woman), received a suspended one-year jail sentence.
A Crimean Tatar scholar says masked assailants dragged him from his car and took his passport in an attack meant to prevent him from attending a UN conference in New York.
A member of the Crimean Tatars' self-governing body, the Mejlis, has been beaten by a so-called self-defense group in Crimea.
Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev has again been denied entry into Crimea, after first being turned back at a Moscow airport on his way from Kyiv to Simferopol on May 2.
A U.S. citizen working for an NGO has reportedly been deported from Russia's Republic of Tatarstan for visa violations.
Nongovernmental organizations in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan have nominated the veteran leader of Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemilev, for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The veteran leader of Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemilev, has received Turkey's highest state award.
A son of the former justice minister of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan has been placed under house arrest.
A Tatar-Muslim organization in Russia's second city of St. Petersburg is targeting gay teachers in the city's secondary schools.
Two journalists from Russia's Republic of Tatarstan are recovering after being kidnapped and severely beaten in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.
A newly established committee has been created in Tatarstan to protect the rights of Muslims in detention in the Russian republic.
A second suspect in November arson attacks against two Orthodox churches in Tatarstan has alleged police torture.
The prosecutor-general of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan has officially requested an investigation into a jihadist video circulating on the Internet in recent days.
Russian emergency services are looking for clues to what caused the crash of a Boeing 737 airliner in Kazan that killed all 50 people on board.
Russia's Ministry for Emergency Situations says 50 people have been killed in a crash at the airport in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Tatarstan region, including the son of the region's president.
The justice minister of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan has resigned amid reports of his son's alleged involvement in dubious business deals.
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