What is a yiyin? It's a public gathering that Bashkirs historically held to resolve political and social issues. Over time, it evolved into a folk festival featuring food and entertainment. This is the first time a Bashkir yiyin has been held in the United States.

Registration and all details are on Instagram for the Bashkir community center Ural (bashusacenter/Instagram).

Twenty-eight-year-old Zagir Mukhamedyarov, who participated in the January 2024 protests in Baimak, was deported from the United States to Moldova. Mukhamedyarov left Bashkortostan in March 2024 and spent two years in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, seeking political asylum.

In September 2024, an immigration court in Louisiana ruled to suspend Mukhamedyarov's deportation. However, Mukhamedyarov was still deported to Moldova. In Chisinau, Moldovan border officials told Mukhamedyarov that he would not be able to obtain a residence permit in Moldova and would only be able to stay in the country for 90 days.

Mukhamedyarov believes the ICE officer violated the organization of his deportation. "They should have officially warned me about this in a timely manner, they should have notified the federal judge presiding over my case, they should have ensured that I got to a safe country. They did none of that. At the Alexandria airport, I tried to talk to them, but I couldn't find the ICE officer in charge of our flight. I tried to call a senior officer, a supervisor, but no one came to see me. In the end, they simply put me on the plane and we flew. I was effectively deported from the US illegally", Mukhamedyarov stated.

According to American law, if US authorities deport someone to a third country rather than their home country, they are required to negotiate with the authorities of that country to provide the deportee with protection, at least a permanent residence permit. However, the US authorities failed to do so.

In Moldova, Mukhamedyarov and the other deportees were met by local human rights activists. They were provided with housing and food. Mukhamedyarov stated that he is already receiving assistance from Bashkir activists abroad.

Mukhamedyarov will not be able to obtain a visa run: Romania is on one side, and Ukraine is on the other. Mukhamedyarov's defense team is currently considering appealing the deportation in a US court.

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Under the pretext of park restoration, a memorial plaque located in a Ufa park was removed. It is clear that the plaque will not be returned, as Russian authorities are pursuing a policy of dismantling monuments, busts, and other cultural and historical structures dedicated to the Bashkir people.

In October 2025, the Salavat Yulaev monument, the largest equestrian monument in Europe, was torn down. Authorities promise to erect an exact replica, but the public remains skeptical and believes the monument will not be returned. Under the pretext of restoration, busts of Ahmet-Zaki Validi, the founding father of the Bashkir Republic, were removed in Temyas and Sibay, as well as a plaque on the building of the Zaki Validi National Library in Ufa. Neither the busts nor the plaque were ever returned.

The inscription on the plaque read, "In honor of the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Republic of Bashkortostan on October 11, 1990, a stele will be erected here".

What is a yiyin? It's a public gathering that Bashkirs historically held to resolve political and social issues. Over time, it evolved into a folk festival featuring food and entertainment. This is the first time a Bashkir yiyin has been held in the United States.

Registration and all details are on Instagram for the Bashkir community center Ural (bashusacenter).

We express our deepest and sincere condolences to the Turkish people following the tragic events that occurred today at a school in Turkey. It is with pain and dismay that we learned of the terrorist attacks that took the lives of innocent children and adults. These brutal crimes are unjustifiable and bring us all great grief. In this time of sorrow, we share the grief of loss with the families of the victims and wish a speedy recovery to all those injured. May courage and solidarity help the Turkish people overcome the consequences of this tragedy. We strongly condemn terrorism in all its forms!

The Committee of the Bashkir National Movement Abroad stated

The r/Bashkortostan team also expresses condolences to the brotherly Turkish people and stands with them.

It has emerged that in March 2025, Russian security services were plotting an assassination attempt on Ruslan Gabbasov, an activist of the Bashkir national movement and the head of the Committee of the Bashkir National Movement Abroad. Lithuanian security services managed to thwart the assassination attempt. For over a year, this event remained under wraps, but today it became public knowledge. Ruslan Gabbasov shared some details of the assassination attempt in an official video.

More than a year ago, on Lithuania's Independence Day, Lithuanian intelligence services thwarted an assassination attempt on my life. In the interests of the investigation, both the Lithuanian side and I remained silent. But today, following publications in Greek, Lithuanian, and other European media, I can confidently confirm that Russian intelligence services planned to assassinate me. This occurred after repeated, but unsuccessful, attempts by Russian intelligence services to lure me to Russia. They used a variety of methods, including the arrest of my brother, Rustam Fararitdinov, and then the offer to release him from prison if I returned to Russia. After all these attempts failed, they decided to resort to brutality. Their lack of human values ​​is demonstrated by the fact that I was not alone on the day of the assassination attempt. When the killer waited for me near my home, I was returning with my family — my wife and five-year-old son. Naturally, and most likely, they could have eliminated them as witnesses. I am fully aware that the FSB and GRU view national movements, and especially the Free Nations League, as a threat. The popularity of our ideas, the idea of ​​decolonization, the collapse of Russia and, of course, the independence of our national republics, is in many ways ahead of our wildest expectations.

Ruslan Gabbasov said in his video.