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.
Prosecutors in Russia's republic of Bashkortostan have charged the owners of a Tatar Internet news portal with alleged extremism and shut down its webpage.
The acting mufti of Russia's republic of Tatarstan, Abdulla Adygamov, says all candidates nominated to serve as Imams should be thoroughly checked if they got religious education abroad.
Russia plans to establish a new Islamic television channel for the country's Muslims in August.
Three historians, a businessman, and an on-line journalist in Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan have been given suspended jail terms for extremist activities.
The government-backed top Islamic leader in Russia's mainly Muslim republic of Tatarstan has been injured and his former deputy killed in two separate attacks.
Officials in the Russian republic of Tatarstan say another man has died in police custody.
