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.
Tatarstan's Prosecutor-General Ildus Nafikov told journalists in the Tatar capital, Kazan, that Ildar Kormanov, 33, a son of the republic's justice minister, Midkhat Kormanov, is suspected of taking a payoff of 47 million rubles ($1,466,000) from a French home-improvement retailer, Leroy Merlin.
Imam Rustem Safin, 41, was sentenced after the court found him guilty late on September 24 of being a member of the international Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group, which is banned in Russia.
A court in Kazan, the capital of Russia's republic of Tatarstan, have designated as extremist the manuscripts of the leader of an underground Islamic sect.
The coordinator of the Russian Alliance nationalist group in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan has been found not guilty of insulting Muslims.
The Russian consul in Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea has resigned amid a controversy caused by his recent comments regarding the deportation of Crimean Tatars during World War II .
Kamil Samigullin has been unanimously elected the new mufti of Tatarstan at a congress of Islamic clerics in Kazan.
The president of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan is in the Czech Republic to discuss the development of bilateral ties and economic cooperation.
The Public Chamber in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan has approved the wearing of head scarfs, or hijabs, for schoolgirls and teachers at secondary schools.
The Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, Nils Muiznieks, has started a trip to Russia with a visit to Tatarstan.
A court in the capital of Russia's Bashkortostan Republic, Ufa, has sentenced a Bashkir nationalist leader to 4 1/2 years in jail.
Protests against plans to kill thousands of stray dogs in the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan has prompted authorities there to hold a discussion with animal rights activists on the issue.
Islamic clerics in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan have accepted Mufti Ildus Faizov's resignation and appointed a 28-year-old imam of a local mosque to replace him.
Fauzia Bayramova, a prominent Tatar writer and leader of the self-proclaimed pan-Tatar Milli Medjlis assembly, says she has filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office against Russian singer Zhanna Bichevskaya.
Prominent Tatar blogger Irek Murtazin has dismissed warnings by Russian investigators that he could face criminal charges for disclosing information on a probe against opposition leader Aleksei Navalny and his brother Oleg.
A court in the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan has upheld the sentences of two leaders of the Al-Ikhlas Mosque.
The World Congress of Tatars (DTK) has adopted a resolution on preserving the Tatar language, culture, religion and traditions.
A court in Ufa has reopened the trial of the former prime minister of Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, Rail Sarbayev.
Police in Kazan, capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, have launched an investigation into an explosion that killed a man on November 20.
The president of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, has said that a Kazakh consulate would be opened soon in the Tatar capital, Kazan.
Police in Russia's republic of Tatarstan say the imam of the Al-Ikhlas Mosque in the capital, Kazan, has been charged with organizing extremist activities in line with the banned Hizb-ut Tahrir group.
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