Idel.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service.
Officials in the Russian city of Ulyanovsk have decided to name a local school after a former student who was killed while serving in Ukraine. However, many people associated with the school want it named for a beloved educator who served as its director for five decades.
"All my life I taught children in Russia, and my place is there. Most likely, I will return, but I don't know what Russia will be like at that moment." An unknown number of teachers have fled Russia since the Kremlin's assault on Ukraine one year ago. Here are some of their stories.
A lawmaker in the Russian region of Samara who mocked President Vladimir Putin's annual address to lawmakers says he has been summoned to meet with police.
A year after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, most Russians support the war, actively or passively. But for thousands who refused to remain silent, the invasion ended their old lives and marked the start of a fierce conflict with their government, the police, their neighbors, and their families.
Russian composer Prokhor Protasov, the author of the anthem of the city of Kirov, was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison for his posts about alleged atrocities committed by Russian troops during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
A court in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, has sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to 6 1/2 years in prison on extremism charges amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group.
Noted Tatar sociologist Iskander Yasaveyev, who spent three days in jail for "inciting hatred" in an analysis of Moscow's war in Ukraine published in June on RFE/RL's Idel.Realities website, says he does not plan to leave Russia.
An explosion in a cafe in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Bashkortostan region, has killed one person.
A noted sociologist in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, Iskander Yasaveyev, has been sentenced to three days in jail on a charge of inciting hatred because of an analysis he wrote about Moscow's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
A sociologist in Russia's Tatarstan region, Iskander Yasaveyev, has been charged with inciting social hatred over his analysis of Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine published on the website of RFE/RL's Idel.Realities project in June.
Lawmakers in Russia's autonomous republic of Tatarstan have approved in one day all three readings of a series of constitutional amendments, including a change that almost immediately abolishes the title of the republic's president, sooner than previously planned.
A court in Russia's western region of Bryansk on January 17 sentenced a 23-year-old man, Kirill Belousov, to five years in prison for planning to join Ukraine's armed forces and fight against Russia in the ongoing war in Ukraine.
A court in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, has sentenced a man to 19 years in prison for being a member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group.
For years, Vladimir Putin's government has waged war against dissent at home -- efforts that have been significantly stepped up since the Kremlin launched its massive invasion of Ukraine in February. But some Russians are using social media to fight against propaganda and fear.
Lawmakers in Russia's autonomous republic of Tatarstan on December 23 voted overwhelmingly in favor of constitutional amendments that allow the abolition of the title of president of the republic -- in line with a directive from Moscow.
A teacher in the Russian city of Perm and her 20-year-old daughter have both been detained for protesting Russia’s war against Ukraine. Each was inspired by the other as they made the decision to risk speaking out.
A Russian court ordered a psychiatric evaluation of an activist on trial for her social media posts about the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A journalist in Russia's Tatarstan, Nailla Mullayeva, has been sentenced to six days in jail and fined $490 on a charge of discrediting the Russian armed forces and violating the law on public gatherings.
Police in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, have searched the home of local journalist Nailla Mullayeva over a video of an attack by anti-war activists in Poland against the Russian ambassador in May.
The Free Nations League, an exiled group representing some of the dozens of non-Russian ethnic groups inside Russia, has sent a letter to Pope Francis protesting against his recent comments calling Chechens and Buryats "perhaps the cruelest" in Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine.
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