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As prominent cultural figures in Iran urge the authorities to stop using force against protesting civilians, Tehran is resorting to arrests and the activation of aged jail sentences in an attempt to silence them.  

Russian-installed authorities in newly occupied territories in southern Ukraine are under increasing pressure from Moscow and possibly preparing to hold referendums on joining Russia later this year, Britain’s Defense Ministry said on July 30.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine may spell the end of his regime, predicts Norway’s Iver Neumann, a leading Russia scholar, in an interview with RFE/RL’s Georgian Service. 

Ukrainian officials have denounced a call on social media by Russia’s embassy in Britain for members of the Azov Regiment to face a “humiliating death."

Russian state-run natural gas giant Gazprom announced on June 30 that it has halted gas shipments to Latvia because of contract violations. 

The United Nations says it is ready to investigate the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in an attack in territory controlled by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. 

The leaders of the European Parliament's major parties have condemned Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for "openly racist" comments he made about racial mixing.

The Ukrainian military said on July 30 that it had killed more than 150 Russian soldiers and destroyed two ammunition dumps in fresh fighting in the Kherson region, where Kyiv is concentrating its biggest counteroffensive since the start of the war.

A man featured in an infamous video showing 150 Kazakhs joining Islamic State in Syria in 2013 with their families is now in prison in his native Kazakhstan. The former militant says that, despite the imprisonment, he is happy to be alive and have the chance to start a new life when he is freed.

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