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.
Russia has kept up the flow of men to fight in Ukraine by paying extraordinarily high wages and bonuses. Now some regions are dropping their payments. Experts aren’t sure exactly why, but worsening economic conditions.
Ukraine struck high-rise buildings in Kazan, the capital of Russia's oil-rich republic of Tatarstan, in the latest display of its growing drone capabilities.
The violent detentions of brawling foreign university students, including from Iran, in Tatarstan has led to a protest by the Iranian consul-general.
Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist for RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service, was honored with the International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists in a ceremony held in New York on November 21.
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.
Two years after President Vladimir Putin’s mobilization order, regions with large non-ethnic-Russian populations, continue to suffer disproportionately. Bashkortostan and Tatarstan top the list.
Telegram channels in Russia's Tatarstan quoted the wife of prominent veteran activist Zinnur Agliullin as saying that her 73-year-old husband had been detained for questioning after police searched their home.
As schools in Russia’s Tatarstan region prepare for the new school year, they find themselves short some 2,000 teachers. Educators say big workloads and low salaries are the reasons fewer people are taking up the profession.
A court in Russia's Tatarstan region on August 12 issued an arrest warrant for political analyst Ruslan Aisin on charges of violating the "foreign agent" legislation and for rehabilitating Nazism.
A court in Russia's Urals city of Yekaterinburg has sentenced Rustam Fararitdinov -- the half-brother of self-exiled Bashkir activist and Kremlin critic Ruslan Gabbasov -- to 5 1/2 years in prison on terrorism charges
A court in Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan sentenced a resident of the city of Neftekamsk on August 6 to three years in prison over six comments he made in private online conversations.
Two former leaders of the late Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny’s teams in Ufa and Tomsk, Lilia Chanysheva and Ksenia Fadeyeva, have been transferred from the prisons where they were being held and their current whereabouts are not known.
A Russian court has sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva, a veteran RFE/RL journalist who holds dual U.S.-Russian citizenship, to 6 1/2 years in prison on charges she, her employer, the U.S. government, and her supporters reject as politically motivated.
A Russian court on July 18 sentenced Ilshat Ulyabayev -- a supporter of imprisoned Bashkir activist Fail Alsynov -- to five years in prison on charges of participating in mass unrest and attacking a police officer.
Authorities in Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan said on July 2 that a gas explosion in a residential building killed a woman and injured four people, including two children.
A Moscow court on June 27 issued an arrest warrant for journalist Farida Kurbangaleyeva on charges of justifying terrorism and the distribution of false information about Russia's military.
Russian authorities on June 19 added journalist Farida Kurbangaleyeva to the list of wanted persons and the registry of terrorists and extremists on unspecified charges.
The Chelny-biz.ru website in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan said on June 11 that local officials have launched a second probe against self-exiled Tatar activist Rafis Kashapov. According
A court in Russia on May 31 extended the pretrial detention of Alsu Kurmasheva, a Prague-based journalist with RFE/RL who holds dual U.S. and Russian citizenship, until August 5.
The Supreme Court in Russia's Tatarstan region on May 28 handed a suspended two-year prison sentence to antiwar activist Zulfia Sitdikova, who was convicted of rehabilitating Nazism and discrediting Russia's military.
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