A Russian teenager was detained in the Tatarstan region after he brought a pistol and a knife to his school and allegedly held his classmates hostage.
A court in Russia's Bashkortostan region has extended pretrial detention for opposition politician Airat Dilmukhametov.
A small town in Tartarstan has struggled after losing two major sources of employment before and after the fall of the Soviet Union. Many residents have moved out of the place once called Tat Vegas.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has submitted a 2020 budget request that proposes to cut spending on international broadcasting by 22 percent and envisions the elimination of three RFE/RL language services.
Plans to build a trash incinerator plant in a town in the southern Russian republic of Tatarstan have sparked protests over fears the plant will dirty the air and cause more cases of cancer.
A Russian court has sentenced an activist to four weeks in jail for putting up a mock gravestone for President Vladimir Putin.
An activist in Russia says his life changed forever after he staged a one-person picket in Samara. Aleksandr Mulyukin says the authorities used insulin as a "lever of control," denying him the medication he needs to treat his diabetes. Now, he and his family have fled the country.
A Russian civil rights activist from the city of Samara in the Volga region says he has fled Russia with his wife and three children to avoid persecution.
A Tatar activist from the Russian republic of Tatarstan has been released from prison on March 4 after the article on extremism in the Russian Criminal Code was partially decriminalized.
Opera singer Khachatur Badalyan was invited to perform at a festival in Kazan, Russia, but after his first appearance, the management dismissed him. Badalyan says the theater director in charge simply considered him too short.
A court in Norway has ordered the detention of a Russian national ahead of his trial for allegedly stabbing a woman at a supermarket in Oslo that police say was the start of a plan to kill several people.
Christians in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan have celebrated Orthodox Christmas in a church once used to execute prisoners during the Soviet era.
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