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The chairman of the All-Tatar Public Center (TIU), Farit Zakiyev, has started a hunger strike to protest a move by prosecutors to label his organization in Russia's Tatarstan region extremist and shut it down.
A woman in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, has gone on trial on a charge of financially supporting extremism because she sent money to the mother of Airat Dilmukhametov, a prominent opposition activist who was sentenced to nine years in prison on extremism charges last year.
Russian police gave protesters electric shocks and beatings, grabbed bystanders off the streets, and detained a record number of people -- more than 5,000 -- during nationwide protests on January 31.
Detentions accompanied an anti-government demonstration in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, on January 31. The police violently pushed reporters away to stop them from filming what was happening around police vans.
Police in Russia used heavy force in detaining more than 3,000 people nationwide as demonstrators took to the streets for a second-straight weekend to demand the release of jailed opposition politician and anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny.
Thousands rallied across Russia's regions on January 23 to demand the release of imprisoned opposition leader and Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny. Navalny was jailed upon his return to Moscow last weekend after receiving medical treatment in Germany for Novichok poisoning.
A military court in Siberia has sentenced Private Ramil Shamsutdinov to 24 1/2 years in prison for killing eight fellow servicemen in a rampage he says was brought on by his hazing in the army.
A pan-European human rights watchdog has expressed concern after a Russian court handed a long prison sentence for hooliganism to a university mathematics student who says he was tortured while in custody.
The head of the Council of Europe has expressed “great concern” after the Association of Schools of Political Studies of the Council of Europe was added to the list of “undesirable” organizations in Russia.
The judges at the trial of a civil rights activist from Russia's Republic of Tatarstan for mocking President Vladimir Putin and two of his close associates in a YouTube video have banned journalists from attending the proceedings, saying they were adhering to restrictions to combat COVID-19.
A court in Moscow has postponed handing down its verdict and sentence for Azat Miftakhov, a young mathematician charged with hooliganism who says he was tortured while in custody.
Two international rights watchdogs have expressed concerns over the inclusion of the five Russian citizens on a controversial list of foreign agents seen by the West as a way for Russian authorities to clamp down on dissent.
The Council of Europe says it is concerned about Russia branding individuals as "foreign agents" after Moscow added five people to a registry that activists say is used as a way to clamp down on dissent.
A mathematician at the center of a high-profile trial in Russia gave a final statement to a Moscow court on December 25 as police detained journalists and activists gathered outside.
Private Ramil Shamsutdinov, who is accused of murdering eight fellow servicemen last year in what he claims was the result of his brutal hazing in the Russian Army, has called the incident a "tragedy."
Prosecutors in Moscow asked a court on December 18 to sentence a local opposition politician to be sentenced to three years in prison over her involvement in anti-Kremlin rallies.
Hearses line up outside Hospital No. 7 in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan to pick up bodies of people who have died after contracting COVID-19. RFE/RL filmed the long lines and grieving relatives over 4 days in December as official figures recorded just 11 deaths from COVID-19 over the same period.
A fire has killed 11 seniors in a private retirement home in Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan.
A Russian military appeals court has upheld the sentence of Airat Dilmukhametov, a prominent opposition activist from the Republic of Bashkortostan who was sentenced to nine years in prison on extremism charges.
Police in Kazan have apprehended a man suspected in dozens of killings of elderly women that took place nearly 10 years ago in and around Russia's Republic of Tatarstan.
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