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 court in the Russian city of Penza has sentenced seven activists from a group known as "Set" to prison terms of between six and 18 years on terrorism charges that opposition figures have denounced as fabricated and "horrific."
Police in Russia's Tatarstan have searched the home of a local civil rights activist after his Internet show mocked President Vladimir Putin, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov, and Igor Sechin, the powerful chief of Russian oil giant Rosneft.
Three police officers in Russia's Tatarstan region have been dismissed for reenacting a clash between protesters and security forces with the direct participation of 12 ninth graders on school grounds in the town of Novotroyitsk.
Dozens of ethnic Kazakhs from China's northwestern region of Xinjiang have urged Kazakhstan to help secure the release of relatives, who they say are being kept in so-called "reeducation camps."
A Tatar Muslim man serving a prison term for being a member of an Islamic group banned in Russia has gone on hunger strike to protest prison conditions and what his mother called "pressure" imposed by the prison's administration.
A court in Moscow has released one of the activists in a high-profile unsanctioned-rally case and ordered him not to leave the Russian capital.
Valeria (Iman) Porokhova, a well-known translator of the Koran into Russian, has died in Moscow at the age of 79.
A court in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan has arrested two men suspected of supporting the extremist group Islamic State (IS) and planning a terrorist attack.
The director of a private school in Russia's Tatarstan region has filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against a partial ban imposed by Russia's federal authorities on Tatar-language teaching in schools there.
A prominent activist in Russia's Urals region of Bashkortostan has been banned from attending the 4th Congress of the World's Bashkirs.
Vladimir Putin holds an annual session on national television in which citizens can call in and ask the president questions. Ahead of the event, Current Time TV asked Russians what they would like to ask Putin, while activists were holding demonstrations to address their concerns to the president.
A meat-processing factory in the town of Shelanger in Russia’s Mari El Republic says it will soon start producing sausages named after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
Police in Ukraine's Russia-controlled Crimea region have briefly detained two Crimean Tatar activists for allegedly displaying banned symbols, in the latest example of the ethnic group being harassed by law enforcement on the peninsula.
A Russian teenager was detained in the Tatarstan region after he brought a pistol and a knife to his school and allegedly held his classmates hostage.
A court in Russia's Bashkortostan region has extended pretrial detention for opposition politician Airat Dilmukhametov.
A Russian court has sentenced an activist to four weeks in jail for putting up a mock gravestone for President Vladimir Putin.
A Tatar activist from the Russian republic of Tatarstan has been released from prison on March 4 after the article on extremism in the Russian Criminal Code was partially decriminalized.
Uyghurs in Kazakhstan have commemorated victims of 1997 violence in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Christians in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan have celebrated Orthodox Christmas in a church once used to execute prisoners during the Soviet era.
Russia's Republic of Kalmykia has marked the 75th anniversary of the start of mass deportations of Kalmyks to Siberia by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
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