Idel.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service.
Activists on December 10 protested against the crackdown inside Russia on independent journalists, including Alsu Kurmasheva, a veteran journalist of RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service who has been held in Russian custody since October 18.
A court in Kazan has rejected an appeal by Alsu Kurmasheva, a veteran journalist of RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service, against another court's decision to fine her 10,000 rubles ($110) for "failure to inform Russian officials about holding a second citizenship."
A court in the Russian city of Kazan has extended by two months the detention of Alsu Kurmasheva, a veteran journalist from RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service who has been in Russian custody since October 18, until February 5.
The human rights group Memorial has recognized Alsu Kurmasheva, a veteran journalist of RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service who has been in Russian custody since October 18, as a political prisoner.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on November 21 that it has launched a probe into mass overdose cases among drug users in the southwestern city of Astrakhan.
RFE/RL’s Alsu Kurmasheva has now spent more than a month in a Russian jail on suspicion that she failed to voluntarily register under the country's "foreign agent" laws. In her first messages from jail, Kurmasheva describes her conditions and expresses gratitude for the support she has received.
The Supreme Court of Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan has rejected an appeal filed by Lilia Chanysheva, the former regional leader of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team, over the seven-and-a-half-year prison term she was handed in June amid a brutal crackdown on civil society.
The imprisoned opposition activist from Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, Airat Dilmukhametov, has been transferred to a notorious "special regime" prison, the harshest type of penitentiary in the country, his relatives told RFE/RL on November 5 after weeks of having no contact with him.
Police in the capital of Russia's Mari El Republic, Yoshkar-Ola, have detained a local resident Kirill Voitovich, who came to an event to honor victims of Soviet-era repression on October 30 with a poster in Belarusian commemorating the victims of Bolshevik persecution.
Imprisoned Russian politicians along with other activists are holding a one-day hunger strike on October 30 to honor political prisoners as residents of towns and cities in several Russian regions marked the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression.
A Russian court has accepted a request by prosecutors to extend the detention of RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva after she was picked up last week by police on charges of failing to register as a "foreign agent."
Prosecutors in Russia's Bashkortostan region have appealed a court decision in September that said the state must pay almost 32 million rubles ($327,400) to an 86-year-old man who served 13 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder and attempted murder in 1959.
Dozens of activists in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Tatarstan region, have commemorated the Tatars killed during the city's siege by Russian troops in 1552, despite the refusal by authorities to officially allow a mass gathering to mark the 451st anniversary of the Kazan Khanate's fall.
Authorities in Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan have launched a probe against Fail Alsynov, the former leader of the banned Bashqort group, accusing him of inciting hatred.
A Moscow court extended pretrial detention until January 6, 2024, of a Ukrainian-born man suspected of carrying out a car bombing in May that wounded a prominent Russian nationalist writer.
Police in Russia's southwestern Astrakhan region have started a new investigation accusing a shelter of animal cruelty after dozens of mutilated dead dogs were found near and in the facility last year.
A military court in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has sentenced anti-war activist Richard Rouz to eight years in prison on charges of justification of terrorism and distribution of false information about Russian armed forces involved in Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
A Russian soldier, identified as Ildar B., committed suicide in a pretrial detention center in Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, on August 30, local media reported.
Canadian authorities have updated their sanctions list to include another 29 Russian companies.
A court in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, on August 24 began the trial of noted activist Ramila Saitova, who was arrested in May over her online posts against Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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