A newly established committee has been created in Tatarstan to protect the rights of Muslims in detention in the Russian republic.
A second suspect in November arson attacks against two Orthodox churches in Tatarstan has alleged police torture.
The parents of a suspect in arson attacks against Orthodox churches in Tatarstan say they believe their son was tortured by police.
Hundreds of Crimean Tatars have gathered in Simferopol, the capital of Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and expressed their solidarity with pro-EU protesters in Kyiv.
The leader of Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, Arsen Kanokov, has resigned.
Russian investigators say the pilot and the co-pilot of an airliner that crashed near the Russian city of Kazan last month, killing 50 people, received their training from aviation centers that were later closed on suspicion of operating illegally.
The prosecutor-general of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan has officially requested an investigation into a jihadist video circulating on the Internet in recent days.
Transparency International is warning that the abuse of power, secret dealings, and bribery within the public sector continue to "ravage" countries around the world, including in the former Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States.
The government of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan has announced rewards for information related to preparations for possible terrorist acts and recent arson attacks against Orthodox churches.
A court in Kazan has upheld the two-year prison sentence previously handed down to the leader of a disbanded mosque in Russia's republic of Tatarstan.
An official in Russia's Investigative Committee said "not a single body fit for identification by relatives was discovered" at the scene of an airplane crash at the airport in Kazan, Tatarstan.
Security has been beefed up in the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, amid official reports about possible terrorist threats.
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