RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service

Автор: RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service

• 12 мая 2021

  'Kids Started To Jump Out Of The Windows': Student Describes Attack On Kazan School

  Over a thousand students up to high-school age attend School No. 175 in Kazan, Russia, the site of a gunman's attack on May 11, 2021 that killed nine people, seven of whom were children. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Tatar-Bashkir Service spoke with this 6th-grader eyewitness about the attack.

• 1 февраля 2021

  A New Level Of Brutality: How Russian Police Dealt With The Latest Mass Protests

  Russian police gave protesters electric shocks and beatings, grabbed bystanders off the streets, and detained a record number of people -- more than 5,000 -- during nationwide protests on January 31.

• 31 января 2021

  Arrests In Ufa And Samara Amid Mass Detentions Of Protesters Across Russia

  Police in Russia used heavy force in detaining more than 3,000 people nationwide as demonstrators took to the streets for a second-straight weekend to demand the release of jailed opposition politician and anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny.

• 9 сентября 2020

  Activists Save Hill From Mining In Russia's Bashkortostan Region

  After weeks of protests, environmental activists in Russia's central Bashkortostan region have won a battle to protect Kushtau Hill from mining. The Bashkir Soda Company had planned to mine limestone from the site. But activists say the hill is a natural treasure and home to many endangered species.

• 19 июня 2019

  Questions, Demands, And Pleas For President Putin

  Vladimir Putin holds an annual session on national television in which citizens can call in and ask the president questions. Ahead of the event, Current Time TV asked Russians what they would like to ask Putin, given the chance, while local activists were holding demonstrations to address their concerns directly to the president.