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.
A Jehovah’s Witness in the western Russian republic of Mari El has been found guilty of extremism and given a suspended 6 1/2 year prison sentence.
Five children and four adults wounded in a deadly attack on a school in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan this week have been transferred to hospitals in Moscow as President Vladimir Putin pledged tighter gun controls for a nation "shaken" by the tragedy.
Funerals were held for the nine victims of the school shooting in Kazan, Russia, on May 12, including 14-year-old Amir Shaykhutdinov. His father thanked everyone for their support, while family friends remembered a "modest, patient boy" who "respected his parents and loved his brother."
Nine victims from an attack on a school in the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan have been buried as investigators search for answers as to why a teenager went on a deadly shooting spree.
Many people, including students and at least one teacher, have been killed in an attack on a school in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Tatarstan republic. After a shooting spree and reports of multiple explosions, one attacker was reportedly detained.
A teenage gunman set off an explosion and opened fire at a school in the regional capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, killing nine people as hundreds fled the smoke-filled building, prompting President Vladimir Putin to order a clampdown on weapons.
A wildfire has ravaged a 16th century Tatar village in Siberia that authorities had planned to turn into a tourist attraction.
Orthodox Easter was marked on the night of May 1-2 in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Tatarstan region. Tatar-speaking Orthodox Christians -- a community known as Kryashens -- gathered for a Mass at the Church of Mother of God's Miraculous Icon of Tikhvin.
Farit Zakiyev, the head of an organization that promotes Tatar language and culture, was sentenced to community service for taking part in Tatarstan's Commemoration Day. The crackdown on Zakiyev's group appears to be part of a larger pressure campaign against minority activists in Russia.
Police have searched the home of well-known Tatar writer and activist Fauzia Bairamova in Naberezhnye Chelny, the second-largest city in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan.
Balkars in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria are marking the 77th anniversary of their mass deportation to Central Asia by Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
A student from Uzbekistan has been ordered to leave Russia for taking part in a January 23 rally in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Tatarstan region, in support of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny.
The chairman of the All-Tatar Public Center (TIU) says police and security officers in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan have searched his home and summoned him for questioning in a case concerning the incitement of hatred.
A court in the Russian city of Samara has found civil rights activist Karim Yamadayev guilty but said he should be released after spending more than a year in detention for mocking President Vladimir Putin and two of his close associates online.
Prosecutors have asked a court in the city of Samara in Russia to sentence civil rights activist Karim Yamadayev from Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan to six years and seven months in prison for mocking President Vladimir Putin and two of his close associates in a YouTube video.
Well-known Tatar writer and activist Fauzia Bairamova has been found guilty of a charge of calling for the violation of the Russian Federation's territorial integrity in a speech that she says was distorted because of translation errors.
The chairman of the All-Tatar Public Center (TIU), Farit Zakiyev, has started a hunger strike to protest a move by prosecutors to label his organization in Russia's Tatarstan region extremist and shut it down.
A woman in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, has gone on trial on a charge of financially supporting extremism because she sent money to the mother of Airat Dilmukhametov, a prominent opposition activist who was sentenced to nine years in prison on extremism charges last year.
Russian police gave protesters electric shocks and beatings, grabbed bystanders off the streets, and detained a record number of people -- more than 5,000 -- during nationwide protests on January 31.
Detentions accompanied an anti-government demonstration in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, on January 31. The police violently pushed reporters away to stop them from filming what was happening around police vans.
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