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Last year, Russia’s Interior Ministry purchased 15,000 sets of shackles. Now the shackles – “new and shiny,” one lawyer says – are showing up on defendants in courts in Russia’s mid-Volga region.

Kasra Nouri, an Iranian journalist imprisoned for his religious association and for reporting on religious freedom, is now facing new charges.

Police in southern Kyrgyzstan have arrested three men in connection with the brutal killing of a 14-year-old girl that sparked outrage in the Central Asian country.

A court in Moscow has sentenced Ivan Safronov, a prominent former journalist, to 22 years in prison in a high-profile treason case highlighting the Kremlin's crackdown on the media.

At the Olvio Nuvo vineyard in Ukraine's embattled Mykolayiv region, workers must dodge the cluster munitions that are strewn throughout the fields while picking grapes.

A court in Minsk has convicted Yuras Zyankovich, a Belarusian-born lawyer who also holds U.S. citizenship, and four co-defendants of allegedly planning to assassinate authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his family and seize power in the country.

Before fleeing Russia in August, Pavel Filatyev penned a bombshell exposé of how things were going for his paratrooper unit in the war in Ukraine. "The sooner Russian citizens at very least stop being afraid to say 'war' and 'we don't want war,' the sooner it will end," he said in an interview.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies have agreed a small oil-production cut in October in a move aimed at stopping a slide in oil prices.

​​​​​​​A Russian-installed official in the southern city of Enerhodar, where the Zaporizhzhya nuclear-power plant is located, told Russian media on September 4 that there had been no new shelling in the area, although fears of a possible environmental catastrophe remain high.

The mother of a Russian prisoner says she hasn't heard from her son in two months. A fellow inmate was reportedly killed in Ukraine after being recruited to fight for invading Russian forces there. She fears her child could face the same fate.