Idel.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service.
A Russian saxophonist known for his anti-war stance has been transferred from a detention center to a prison infirmary in Samara after reports of an extension of his pretrial detention exposed a serious medical condition.
Election monitors have reported being denied access to polling stations as Russia’s nationwide elections continue, while various infractions including carousel voting and vote-buying have been recorded.
The British rock band Placebo has announced that its planned performance at the Park Live festival in Kazakhstan has been canceled for "circumstantial reasons" it said was unrelated the event's Russian organizer.
Judge Rizvan Yusupov of Tatarstan's Supreme Court, who upheld the extension of the pretrial arrest of RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva in June, may lose his position after he confirmed reports that his children have U.S. citizenship.
Police in Russia's Perm region on August 30 launched a manhunt to catch a former inmate, Artyom Buchin, who is suspected of killing a 28-year-old woman and her daughter after returning from the war in Ukraine.
A court in the Russian city of Samara on August 29 placed activist Alina Lushavina in pretrial detention until at least October 29 on a charge of justifying terrorism by reposting an unspecified message online.
Ethnic Germans from the former Soviet Union have held their first international "memory marathon" to raise awareness of the deportation and persecution of the group under brutal dictator Josef Stalin and through into post-Soviet Russia.
A Russian court on August 28 sentenced a supporter of late opposition politician Aleksei Navalny to 30 months in prison on charges of "taking part in an extremist group's activities" and "vandalism."
A court in Russia on August 22 annulled a contract between the Defense Ministry and a Danish citizen, who claims he was duped into joining Russian troops invading Ukraine.
Colonel Irek Magasumov, a former "Hero of Russia" who last month was sentenced to 11 years in prison over the death of a teen girl in Russia-occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk, has rejoined Russian troops invading Ukraine, his wife said on August 5.
After spending 288 days in Russian detention, RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva was released on August 1 as part of a prisoner swap between the United States and Russia. During her detention, Kurmasheva chronicled much of what she experienced in her letters to friends and family.
Russia's Justice Ministry on July 25 labeled 55 organizations registered abroad as extremist because of their association the banned Anti-Russia Separatist Movement, a grouping that is non-existent.
Prosecutors asked a court in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod on July 24 to sentence activist Gleb Kalinychev to four years in prison for sending 1,899 rubles ($21.9) to late opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in 2021-22.
Russia's financial watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, on July 23 added to the list of terrorists and extremists musician Eduard Sharlot, who was arrested in November on his return from Armenia, where he publicly protested against Moscow's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
The jailed former member of late Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in Bashkortostan, Olga Komleva, has been additionally charged with distributing false information about Russian military, the Basmanny district court in Moscow said on July 23.
A court in Russia's Tatarstan region on July 16 fined feminist activist Dina Nurm and her partner, Anastasia Goncharenko, 100,000 rubles ($1,130) each for "propagating LGBT relations."
A single-engine Cessna 172 airplane crashed in Russia's Tatarstan region on July 10, killing three of the four people on board.
With President Vladimir Putin pushing his version of “traditional” Russian values, ethnic and sexual minorities have been increasingly marginalized in a country where anything that does not toe the Kremlin line is seen as a threat. But one small record label in Tatarstan is fighting back.
Google said on June 27 it added 110 languages in one day, including those of multiple ethnic groups in the Russian Federation, including Bashkir, Buryat, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash, Meadow Mari, Komi, Ossetian, Saami, Tuvan, and Yakut.
The Supreme Court of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan has rejected an appeal by RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva against a decision to extend her pretrial detention.
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