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Senior Russian officials on March 25 continued to call for the strictest punishment, including the death penalty, for all those found to be involved in the terrorist attack on a Moscow region concert hall that left 137 people dead.

The executive secretary of Georgia's ruling Georgian Dream party, Mamuka Mdinaradze, announced on March 25 that the party has initiated a bill on constitutional amendments that would significantly limit LGBT rights in the South Caucasus country.

A Moscow court on March 25 sentenced in absentia self-exiled anti-war activist Anastasia Ageyeva to eight years in prison on a charge of distributing false information about Russia's military.

Four people were killed and several others injured on March 24 when a driver competing in a Hungarian motorsport rally skidded off the road and crashed into spectators, authorities said.

Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-installed governor of Russia-occupied Crimea, said one person was killed and four were wounded in a "massive" Ukrainian missile attack on the port of Sevastopol on March 24.

The Ukrainian military said on March 24 that its forces have destroyed two Russian landing ships and other targets belonging to the Black Sea Fleet.

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts blasted off en route to the International Space Station,  two days after its launch was aborted seconds before takeoff.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other Ukrainian officials on March 23 furiously denied any role by their country in the devastating attack on a Moscow-area concert hall a day earlier that killed at least 143 people and was claimed by the militant group Islamic State (IS).

An eyewitness to the horrific attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue has given an account of what happened during the deadly mass shooting near Moscow. In a telephone interview with Current Time, the eyewitness, identified only as Dave, spoke about what he saw from the balcony of the concert hall at the moment when the shooters burst into the venue.

Russia's Foreign Ministry says it issued the necessary documents for a Spanish journalist to stay in the country although the reporter claims he was forced to leave because his visa was not renewed.