A court in Ufa has reopened the trial of the former prime minister of Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, Rail Sarbayev.
A new nationalities policy sets guidelines for policies affecting Russia's nearly 200 ethnic groups. Its drafting has provoked intense concern among them that the status of non-Russian nationalities could be diminished.
The wetlands of Russia's Tyumen region are the site of the oldest Russian settlement in Siberia. But they are also home to Russians of Tatar descent. They live in the remote villages cut off from "the mainland" from spring through winter.
Police in Kazan, capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, have launched an investigation into an explosion that killed a man on November 20.
The president of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, has said that a Kazakh consulate would be opened soon in the Tatar capital, Kazan.
Tennis fans who still associate Marat Safin with the volatile party animal of old would find it hard to recognize the modest, seemingly devout Muslim who attended prayers in traditional Tatar dress during Eid al-Adha celebrations last week.
Investigators in Tatarstan say they are probing a video purportedly showing a man being tortured to death in a police station. The video, obtained and released by a local rights group, is the latest torture scandal to hit the Tatar police.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says a security operation in Kazan on October 24 prevented a major terrorist attack set to take place during an Islamic holiday.
Security forces in the Russian city of Kazan are engaged in a deadly clash with militants.
The president of the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan has dismissed the republic's government and assumed the responsibilities of prime minister himself.
Police in Russia's republic of Tatarstan say the imam of the Al-Ikhlas Mosque in the capital, Kazan, has been charged with organizing extremist activities in line with the banned Hizb-ut Tahrir group.
A court in Kazan, the capital of Russia's republic of Tatarstan, has ruled that an Islamic center operating in the city must be shut down.
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