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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, in response to the publication by the Russian socio-political newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe, stating that he has pancreatic necrosis, and there is little hope for his recovery, has twice attempted to refute the media reports by posting videos from government meetings and the gym.

Anatoly Evsyukov, from the Rostov region, was on board a plane that crashed in Afghanistan.

Kyrgyz lawmaker Gulya Kojogulova has called on the country’s security agencies to look into the avito.ru website in Russia, which offers to buy Kyrgyz citizenship for Russian and Belarusian citizens born before the official dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.

Police in Russia have searched the homes of several politicians and a journalist who allegedly have ties with fugitive former lawmaker Ilya Ponomaryov, who currently resides in Ukraine.

Russian forces have shot and killed the mayor of the Ukrainian town of Hostomel, local officials say, as he was distributing bread to residents trapped by Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. 

Several Russian television channels have been hacked and had their programming substituted with coverage of the war in Ukraine by independent broadcasters Current Time and Dozhd TV, outlets blocked in Russia by the authorities.