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Anastasia Peravoshchykava spent 105 days in a Belarusian jail for taking part in rallies calling for longtime leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka to step down. After being released this week, she spoke of her ordeal and the relief of seeing family, friends, and greenery again.

Eid Celebrations From Europe To Asia As Ramadan Ends May 13, 2021 08:37 GMT Millions of Muslims around the world are celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the monthlong fast of Ramadan. 1 Muslims attend prayers to mark Eid al-Fitr at the Gadel Mosque in Kazan in the Russian republic of Tatarstan.  2 Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Kul Sharif Mosque in Kazan  3 Kosovar men attend Eid al-Fitr prayers outside a mosque in the capital, Pristina. 4 Prayers at a mosque in Minsk, Bel...

share Print Uzbekistan will mark 30 years of independence since the collapse of the Soviet Union in September and in that time the country has watched its fortunes -- and its hopes for a free and democratic society -- rise and fall. One person whose legacy is inextricably tied to those hopes and to cataloguing Uzbekistan’s darkest moments is Surat Ikramov -- chairman of the Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Defenders -- who died in Tashkent on March 3 at age 77. Human rights work i...

Prominent Russian demographer Aleksei Raksha thinks even those numbers are unrealistic, indicating that the true scope of the pandemic in Russia may never be known. “It is simply a fact that we do not know how many infections we have had,” Raksha told RFE/RL, adding that methods of estimating the number of infections in the absence of large-scale epidemiological studies are far from ideal. “It is all just guesswork. I think that in Russia, no less than one-third of the population has had ...

Victims To Be Buried As Authorities Look For Answers After School Shooting In Russias Tatarstan May 12, 2021 07:50 GMT Share share Print KAZAN, Russia -- The bodies of the nine victims from an attack on a school in the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan are being delivered to the families for burial as investigators search for answers as to why a teenager went on a deadly shooting spree. Several black funeral vans and ambulances could be seen lining up near the main morgue in Kazan on...

With the poll just a month away, no immediate favorite has emerged among the many rumored candidates, but many view the hard-liners as ascendant. Turnout could be hit by rising discontent over steep rises in consumer prices and high unemployment as the Iranian economy has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and U.S. economic sanctions reimposed after Washington in 2018 pulled out of the nuclear accord, which lifted international sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear progr...

share Print Given the Islamic faiths deep roots in Tatarstan, its not surprising that the regional capital, Kazan, boasts a number of historic and iconic mosques, such as Iske Tash and Al-Marzhdani. One of the citys most interesting Muslim places of worship, however, can be found in the blue-collar Kirovsky district, some 20 minutes drive from the center. Built in 1910, the Rajab is Kazans oldest wooden mosque and boasts a long and eventful history, including a fire, the Bolshevik execution of...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is calling on authorities in the Russian republic of Tatarstan not to contest the appeals of two correspondents for an independent news website who have been found guilty of interfering with traffic and disobeying police.

Prosecutor Seeks Lengthy Prison Terms For Deadly Siberian Mall Fire May 12, 2021 16:11 GMT Share share Print KEMEROVO, Russia -- The prosecutor in the high-profile case of a deadly mall fire in 2018 in Siberia has asked a court Prosecutor Aleksandr Korobeinikov asked the Zavodskoi district court in the city of Kemerovo on May 12 to hand the longest sentence to Yulia Bogdanova, former director of a company that owned the Zimnyaya Vishnya (Winter Cherry) mall in the city, where a fire killed 60 ...

The parliament in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s predominantly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, has rejected a request from the country’s international overseer to revoke awards recognizing convicted war criminals.