Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist for RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service ... under strict conditions in the Russian prison in the Perm region where she is serving a five-year sentence for her online ...

RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service is the only major international ... Muslim-majority Volga-Ural region.

He intends to appeal against the verdict. Alsynov has also in the past criticised military mobilisation in the region as "genocide" of the Bashkir people, a Turkic race closely related to the ...