INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Law enforcement officers detained Rifat Dautov following a protest last Friday in Bashkortostan's capital of Ufa, his sister, identified
of the largest protests in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine as thousands gathered in the Ural Mountains region to support jailed Bashkir
activist Fayil Alsynov.At one of the protests, police were filmed beating demonstrators with truncheons and using tear gas and smoke
grenades to disperse crowds.So far, authorities have opened at least 123 administrative and 16 criminal cases in connection to the
demonstrations, according to the independent human rights watchdog OVD-Info.One of Alsynov's supporters, 42-year-old Dim Davletkildin, was
