Idel.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on June 5 that eight people have died and several others have been hospitalized in the Ulyanovsk and Samara regions after they drank cider bought in local shops.
The Supreme Court of Russia's Bashkortostan region has remanded in pretrial detention noted activist Ramila Saitova, who was arrested last week over her online posts against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Wagner Group is by far the most notorious Russian mercenary company, its soldiers having played visible roles in conflict, chaos, and commerce from Africa to Ukraine, where they have led Russia's long, bloody push to take Bakhmut. But Wagner is not Russia's only private military company.
Aleksandr Chernyshov, the chief of the Memorial human right group's successor entity, the Center of Historic Memory, has been detained in the Russian city of Perm on a charge of "attempted smuggling of cultural artifacts."
An anti-war activist from Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, Mark Serov, says he has fled the country, fearing for his safety after serving eight days in jail for publicly commemorating victims of the Russian shelling of Ukraine's city of Dnipro.
In the middle of last month, the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, opened a memorial cemetery outside the Volga River city of Samara for fighters killed in Ukraine. RFE/RL went in search of the stories behind some of the more than 200 graves there.
The prosecution has asked a court in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Bashkortostan region, to convict and sentence Lilia Chanysheva, the former leader of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team, to 12 years in prison.
RFE/RL's Idel.Realities has identified 21 Russian soldiers who relatives believe were in the Ukrainian city of Makiyivka on January 1, when scores were killed by a rocket strike. The families have received no information from the military but cling to the hope that their loved ones survived.
A court in Russia on April 20 prolonged until late July the pretrial detention of lawyer Dmitry Talantov, who was arrested in June 2022 on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces.
Lilia Chanysheva, a former coordinator for Aleksei Navalny who has been in jail for 17 months, faces up to 18 years in prison for allegedly organizing an "extremist organization." Her trial began last month, and, in an interview from jail, she told RFE/RL about her conditions and her expectations.
A court in Russia's southwestern Astrakhan region has sentenced three Jehovah's Witnesses to seven years in prison each amid a crackdown on the religious group.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation allowing for electronic conscription notices, a bid to cut down on draft dodging as the Kremlin seeks more soldiers for what is expected to be a long war in Ukraine. It’s a “law on hidden mobilization,” an attorney and activist says.
Police in Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan are investigating the deaths of 18 dogs, including several puppies, which were found on April 12 in a forest near the city of Sterlitamak.
Samara regional lawmaker Mikhail Abdalkin was fined for "discrediting the armed forces" over a short video showing him mocking Russian President Vladimir Putin's state-of-the-nation address in late February. He tells RFE/RL about his protest and the court hearing that followed.
A Ukrainian strike on New Year's Eve killed dozens of Russian soldiers from the Samara region in the city of Makiyivka. Three months later, Moscow still officially puts the death toll at 89. An RFE/RL open-source investigation has established that at least 140 soldiers died that night.
The prosecutor of Russia's Tatarstan region, Ildus Nafikov, asked the region's Supreme Court to convict and sentence to life in prison a man who killed nine people in an attack on a school in May 2021.
More than a year after Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and in the midst of a historic crackdown on dissent, a handful of Russians continue to risk their lives and liberty in a quixotic bid to convince their country to change course.
A prosecution witness at the high-profile trial of Lilia Chanysheva, the former leader of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in Ufa, has testified in court that she has been pressured by officers of the Interior Ministry's anti-extremist directorate.
A university in Russia's Mari El region has expelled Viktor Novogorsky, an activist of the Mari Ushem (Union Of Mari People) organization, after he took part in a commemoration of the founder of the Mari people's literature, Sergei Chavain, who was executed by Josef Stalin's regime in 1937.
A group of mathematicians from universities in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Russia has commemorated the 30th birthday of jailed Tatar scientist Azat Miftakhov, his fifth while incarcerated on charges he rejects, with a raft of messages and renewed calls for his freedom.
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