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.
World Aquatics (FINA) said on February 9 that Singapore will host its 2025 championships instead of Kazan, the capital of Russia's Tatarstan region.
A Moscow court has extended the pretrial detention of Lilia Chanysheva, the former chief of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's office in the city of Ufa in Bashkortostan.
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.
Outspoken Tatar activist Fauzia Bairamova was summoned to the prosecutor’s office in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan for questioning on January 20 regarding her post on Facebook about Tatars being mobilized to the military in Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Murtaza Rakhimov, once an influential politician who led Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan from 1993 to 2010, has died at the age of 88.
Russian commanders faced shouted obscenities and threats as they tried to control newly mobilized soldiers in the Tatarstan region. Footage that surfaced on a Telegram channel from early November shows enraged draftees chanting and accusing Russian Army leaders of selling off ammunition.
A teacher and activist who openly protested Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has left his native Republic of Tatarstan in Russia for another country.
In Bashkortostan, many parents of conscripts have launched appeals to the local military prosecutor's office over complaints that their sons were illegally detained at the conscription office and growing fears they could be pressured to sign contracts to fight in Ukraine.
A well-known Bashkir activist who fled Russia fearing persecution over his activities raising awareness about problems faced by Muslims in the country has been held in a deportation center in Greece for almost two months, where authorities tell him they may deport him back to Russia.
Faced with a deepening personnel crisis for its war in Ukraine, Russian authorities are recruiting from republics in the North Caucasus and looking to form extra units along ethnic lines.
Despite numerous protests by Orthodox activists and organizations, the first monument to Soyembike, the woman who ruled the Khanate of Kazan in the 16th century, has been unveiled in Russia.
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia has labeled the All-Tatar Public Center (TIU), a leading nongovernmental organization involved in promoting and protecting Tatar history, culture, and language, as an extremist group amid Moscow's ongoing crackdown on NGOs.
Yury Shevchuk, leader and frontman of DDT, one of Russia's most popular rock groups, has been charged with an administrative misdemeanor over a statement he made during a concert about Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Amid accusations from Ukrainian officials, more evidence is revealed that Russia has forcibly relocated thousands from Mariupol and other scenes of intense fighting in Ukraine.
Chinese investment in Russian regions like Bashkortostan -- some 1,300 kilometers from Moscow – was already troubled, but Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine could see it deteriorate further.
As more coffins and death notices come home, the brutal reality of Moscow's six-week war in Ukraine begins to hit regular families.
The chairman of the All-Tatar Public Center (TIU), Farit Zakiyev, has left Russia's Tatarstan region for Turkey over Moscow's unprovoked war against Ukraine.
The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office has declared the Ukrainian-registered nongovernmental organization Free Idel-Ural, which seeks to protect the rights of indigenous ethnic groups in the Volga region, as "undesirable."
Residents of the Russian city of Yoshkar-Ola shared their feelings about a possible war against Ukraine. "It shouldn't be said that a war is possible, but rather, that it must not happen now, in principle," a local woman said.
Like their coreligionists elsewhere, Roman Catholics in Russia's Tatarstan region also celebrated Christmas midnight Mass on the night of December 24-25. Dozens attended the service at the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in the region's capital, Kazan.
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