Twin Chinese men facing expulsion from Russia since losing contact with their Uyghur father and Tatar mother in China say they fear being sent to a "concentration camp" if their appeal for refugee status is rejected by Russian authorities.
Albert Razin was so passionate about his native language -- and so fearful that it was dying out -- that he burned himself to death on the main square of his home city. His widow, Yulia Razina, tells RFE/RL it was a political protest and a cry of desperation.
A Russian teenager who was detained in the Tatarstan region after he brought a pistol and a knife to his school in May has been found mentally unstable.
Mourners paid their respects at the funeral of Udmurt scholar Albert Razin, who died by self-immolation in a protest against Russia's language policies. They filled a hall on September 12 in the town of Izhevsk, the capital of the Volga region of Udmurtia.
Hundreds have bid farewell to Udmurt scholar Albert Razin, who died after he lit himself on fire in protest against Russia's language policies in the capital of the Volga region of Udmurtia.
A 79-year-old man who lit himself on fire protesting against Russia's language policies in the capital of the Volga region of Udmurtia has died.
Valeria (Iman) Porokhova, a well-known translator of the Koran into Russian, has died in Moscow at the age of 79.
Agents of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) have raided the offices of Russia Justice Initiative (RJI), a human rights group in Moscow.
A court in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan has arrested two men suspected of supporting the extremist group Islamic State (IS) and planning a terrorist attack.
Islamic leaders in Tatarstan have been asked to provide access to mosques in preparation for the launch of a surveillance system under orders from the Russian region's Ministry of Digital Development and Communications.
The director of a private school in Russia's Tatarstan region has filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against a partial ban imposed by Russia's federal authorities on Tatar-language teaching in schools there.
At least six people have been killed and several more injured in a bus accident in the Russian region of Bashkortostan.
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