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KAMAZ, the largest Russian manufacturer of trucks, buses, and vehicle engines, banned its employees from using Apple products for work-related tasks on August 21, through a decree signed by Director General Sergey Kogogin.
The popular online Tatar language school Ana Tele (The Mother Tongue), which halted operations in June after the international Education First (EF) group left Russia, will resume its courses.
Yelena Romanova (aka Blinova), an opposition activist from Russia's Republic of Chuvashia in the Volga region, has fled the country after being sentenced in April to two years of correctional work and docked 10 percent of her salary.
A court in Russia's Volga city of Samara has issued an arrest warrant for Sergei Podsytnik on a charge of distributing false news about Russia's armed forces involved in Moscow's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Fugitive Russian lawmaker Vladislav Zhivitsa announced at a press conference in Warsaw on August 13 the launch of a movement for the independence of his native Smolensk region from the Russian Federation.
Alabuga Polytechnic University -- located some 900 kilometers from Moscow -- is using its teenage students to work at a factory that assembles Iranian attack drones. The students face long hours and “exploitative” conditions.
A court in the Russian city of Perm has dropped all charges against 82-year-old writer Aleksandr Nikonov, the writer's lawyer said on August 10.
The Supreme Court of Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan on August 7 extended until November 10 the pretrial arrests of Yury Yefimov and Aleksei Dmitriyev, two members of a neo-communist group known as the Marxist Circle.
An appeals court in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod on August 7 upheld the life sentence imposed on Ilnaz Galyaviyev, who had been convicted of an armed attack on a school in Kazan in which nine people, including seven children, were killed.
A Russian court on July 31 sent a Ukrainian-born man, Sergei Okrushko, to pretrial detention until at least September 28 on suspicion of involvement in an explosion last week at a major oil refinery in the Volga River city of Samara.
A court in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan on July 20 sent to pretrial detention for at least two months a suspected member of the Freedom of Russia legion that is fighting alongside Ukrainian forces against occupying Russian troops.
The State Duma, the Russian parliament's lower chamber, on July 19 approved in its final reading a bill allowing an experiment to introduce the Islamic banking system in the country's four mostly Muslim-populated regions.
Pro-Kremlin activists in the city of Astrakhan have unveiled a bust of Tsar Ivan IV, also known as Ivan the Terrible, on private land after the city's administration refused to locate it on a public site.
A Russian soldier killed himself shortly before he was to return to the front in Ukraine, where a relative said the 34-year-old volunteer’s initial stint had “greatly affected his psyche.” A U.S.-based military analyst warns that “a major crisis with Russian veterans of this war” is likely.
A court bailiff was found dead in a public restroom in Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan.
The exiled Free Nations League says that a subunit of the formerly unknown Erzya Resistance movement torched a car belonging to Sergei Lyapunov, the head of the town of Zubova Polyana in Russia's Republic of Mordovia.
A former regional leader of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's team has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison on charges of extremism as Russia continues its brutal crackdown on civil society and dissent amid its ongoing war against Ukraine.
Men from Central Asia are being forced to support Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine in a penal colony in the Russian city of Samara by doing things such as producing military equipment for the country's armed forces, two letters obtained by RFE/RL from inmates at the colony show.
Russia's Interior Ministry has added journalist Sergei Podsytnik to its wanted list on unspecified charges. The editor of Protokol, an online newspaper in the city of Samara, appeared in the wanted persons registry on June 9.
A federal judge has died after apparently falling from his 12th floor apartment in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan.
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