A Russian court has convicted a youth activist of terrorism-related offenses for a social-media post praising the mass killing at a gay nightclub in Florida last year, but declined to sentence him to prison.
A Russian prosecutor called for a three-year prison sentence for a youth activist from the Tatarstan region who is on trial over a social-media post praising the killing of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida last year.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has filed extremism charges against a leading Crimean Tatar official in the annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea.
In the Russian Republic of Mordovia, Muslim Tatars are fighting for religious freedom in school. Students and teachers in the village of Belozerye are challenging officials who want to ban them from wearing head scarves. (RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service)
A youth activist in Russia's Tatarstan region is being tried on terror-related charges over a social-media post praising the killing of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida last year.
Freedom House has condemned the arrest of lawyer Emil Kurbedinov and his client Seyran Saliev by Russian-imposed prosecutors in Ukraine's Moscow-annexed Crimea region.
Two activists picketed the regional headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Russia's Tatarstan region on January 23, demanding it take steps to give consumers access to their accounts in two troubled banks.
The International Ski Federation (FIS) says two snowboard World Cup competitions due to be held in the Russian region of Tatarstan's capital next month have been canceled for "financial reasons."
The head of the Russian region of Tatarstan has compared a new Moscow policy to Stalin's brutal dispossession of the Soviet peasantry in the 1930s.
President Barack Obama has approved legislation that would consolidate oversight of U.S. nonmilitary broadcasting in the hands of a single chief executive, an overhaul that supporters laud as a much-needed reform but critics warn could endanger journalistic independence.
A man who drove his car hundreds of meters through Tatarstan's international airport in Kazan has been sentenced to 15 days in administrative detention.
Banks in Russia's Tatarstan region have limited cash services for their clients as one of the leading banks in Russia's Volga region, Tatfondbank, tries to avoid insolvency.
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