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Lithuania's Interior Ministry said on December 13 that it has annulled the citizenship of Adolfas Kaminskas, a husband of Yelena Kaminskas, aka Shebunova, who is reportedly the mother of two extramarital children from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said on December 13 that she does not see any chance of reviving Rio Tinto's $2.4 billion lithium project for which licenses were revoked earlier this year.

The United Kingdom has announced a new package of 16 sanctions targeting senior Russian commanders for their involvement in the Russian military and Iranian businessmen and officials involved in the production and/or supply of drones to Moscow.

A Belarusian court on December 13 handed prison terms to four activists amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent and civil society.

Belarus's authoritarian leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has appointed Syarhey Aleynik as the country's new foreign minister following the unexpected death of Uladzimer Makey in late November at the age of 64.

Police in Moscow have searched the home of the mother of Pyotr Verzilov, a co-founder of the Pussy Riot protest group and the Mediazona news website, for unspecified reasons.

A court in Moscow has sentenced the former prime minister of Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan to five years in prison for embezzling 108 million rubles ($1.7 million) from the country’s Defense Ministry in 2012.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on December 13 that an agreement had been reached on removing heavy weapons from Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and that talks were under way on procedures for doing this.

Belarus's Defense Ministry says it is carrying out an inspection of the combat readiness of its armed forces.

A son of Tajik opposition politician Shamsiddin Saidov may be extradited to Tajikistan from Germany, where he will face arbitrary arrest and torture, according to the National Alliance of Tajikistan (PMT), which unites several opposition groups in exile.