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Ramazan Alpaut

Ramazan Alpaut is a Tatar-Bashkir Service journalist covering regional issues in Russia's regions, including the Middle Volga, the North Caucasus, and post-Soviet countries, with a focus on ethnic policy, gender issues, minority rights, local economies, politics, and activism. He is the host and author of Inside Out, a program on regional dynamics for RFE/RL

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January 11, 2025
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A man who illegally crossed the Rio Grande River into the United States reportedly admitted to having worked with the notorious Russian mercenary group Wagner. His arrest came just weeks after he appears to have been honored in Russia for his combat service.
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Before Moldova held a dual presidential vote and EU referendum, Kremlin-linked actors were busy sowing disinformation, explains Felix Kartte, a disinformation expert. Authoritarian regimes are also using new tactics to "confuse" and "deflect blame."
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Sometimes river waters lap high along the banks by the Kremlin in Kazan, Russia, but other times they're just a dull, muddy trickle. It's not just the weather that's causing this, and activists are crying foul.
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Russky Or Rossiisky: An Activist -- And His Native Language -- Go On Trial In A Russian Courtroom

In Russia's Komi region, a man arrested for a protest over Aleksei Navalny's jailing got into a yelling match with a judge over his right to speak his native language in court.
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A Common Language: Russia's 'Ethnic' Republics See Language Bill As Existential Threat

A bill snaking its way through the Duma on the teaching of native languages has representatives of Russia's so-called ethnic republics up in arms, arguing that Moscow's intention is to "make everyone Russian."

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