US EditionPolice Raids, Arrests Reported in Bashkortostan as Tensions Rise Over State-Backed Mining Project
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On the morning of June 5, the Silovists came home to a Bashkir blogger and socialist, Ural Baibulatov, who spoke p...
Police Raids, Arrests Reported in Bashkortostan as Tensions Rise Over State-Backed Mining Project
Authorities in Russia’s republic of Bashkortostan and the neighboring Magnitogorsk region raided homes and detained activists who oppose a government-backed plan to develop copper mining deposits near their communities, local media reported Thursday. Security forces searched the house of prominent Bashkir activist Ural Baybulatov in the early hours of Thursday, RFE/RL’s Volga-Ural service Idel.Realii reported, citing an anonymous source familia…
In Bashkortostan, an activist and blogger, Ural Baibulatov, have filed a criminal case for the dissemination of deliberately false information about circumstances that threaten the life and security of citizens (art. 207.1 of the Criminal Code) with Idel.Realia, referring to his acquaintance. Baybulatov and other activists opposed the development of a copper mine on the Kryktytau Ridge in the Abzelylov district.
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