The Youth Union of Bashkortostan is urging President Murtaza Rakhimov and legislators in the republic to preserve its sovereignty, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.
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The opening ceremony of a new Islamic center in Bashkortostan's capital, Ufa, is set to be held, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir service reports.
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Two large maternity hospitals in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan will soon display Russian Orthodox icons of the Virgin Mary, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.
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Three of the four republics the Russian Constitutional Court has ordered to drop references in their constitutions to republic sovereignty and citizenship are dragging their feet. That reluctance reflects both the importance of these terms to many non-Russians, and the calculation that resistance to the center could yield dividends.
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Tatarstan's Supreme Court has upheld the acquittal of two policemen accused of shooting and killing an unarmed civilian, RFE/RL's correspondent reports from the capital, Kazan.
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