Artur Asafyev is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service.
Announcements have appeared online in the Bashkortstan capital proclaiming a "homophobic game" named after the popular horror movie Saw, and LGBT activists cite "dozens" of cases of violence, intimidation, extortion, and other harassment.
A Russian student says his college has threatened him over his support for opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, the latest example of the pressure students are facing over their political dissent.
The central Russian region of Bashkortostan has announced a two-pronged tourism-development plan targeting fans of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and acolytes of the region's 14th-century Imam Husseinbek.
A schoolteacher in Bashkortostan is opening eyes by trying to live for six months without spending more than the $158 a month that the Russian government defines as the subsistence minimum.
