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Lawmakers in the southern Almaty region have agreed to name a local school after slain opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbaiuly, despite open questions over his assassination and demands by relatives, rights groups, and opposition politicians for a thorough investigation of his death in 2006.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has been placed in punitive solitary confinement for the fourth time since mid-August.

Moscow has requested "further clarifications" from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after the UN nuclear watchdog published a report on the situation at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.

In recorded calls obtained by Schemes, a Russian soldier described an assault on a village in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region in grisly detail. The investigative unit of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service then reached the soldier himself, obtaining a denial -- and further evidence of possible war crimes.

A Tajik blogger from the country's restive Gorno-Badakhshan region has reportedly been arrested in Moscow and may be extradited to Tajikistan, where his colleagues say he faces illegal incarceration and arbitrary prosecution.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected Western accusations that Moscow is using its energy exports as a "weapon" while boasting that it can easily sell oil and gas around the world and blaming Europeans for current interruptions in gas supplies to the continent. 

Investigators in Russia have launched a probe against noted independent documentary filmmaker Vitaly Mansky after pro-Kremlin film director Nikita Mikhalkov accused him of libel.

Netflix has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a Georgian chess master Nona Gaprindashvili, who alleged that she was defamed in an episode of the fictional hit television series “The Queen’s Gambit.”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade on the middle leg of a Balkan tour that has already taken him to Bosnia-Herzegovina and finishes up in Croatia.

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