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Authorities in Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region said on May 13 that two attempted attacks were carried out on a fuel depot and conscription center in the regional capital, Tiraspol.

Russian forces appear to have suffered more setbacks in Ukraine as Moscow is facing mounting accusations of war crimes committed from the start of its unprovoked invasion. 

A court in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, has extended the pretrial detention for activist Andrei Boyarshinov, who was charged with terrorism over his calls to stop Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

Moldova's foreign minister says there are "internal forces" in the country seeking to "destabilize the region" in the shadow of Russia's war on Ukraine but that Chisinau is working to ensure that such efforts don't spread the conflict.

A court in Russia has sentenced another group of Crimean Tatars to lengthy prison terms on charges of being members of a banned Islamic group amid an ongoing crackdown on representatives of such groups.

Another Kazakh activist has been released from prison after a court replaced the remainder of his five-year sentence with a parole-like penalty amid an outcry by human rights groups over political prisoners in the Central Asian nation.

Armed with an arsenal of colors, graffiti artists around the world are protesting Russia's invasion of Ukraine by painting provocative street art and murals against the war. 

Iranian activists have warned that the government could use a visit to Iran by a special UN rapporteur for propaganda purposes. The UN rapporteur, Alena Douhan, has also faced controversy in the past over her visits to autocratic countries.

Iranian authorities have arrested at least 22 demonstrators protesting against price hikes in subsidized food staples in two cities in the southwest of the country.

Amid calls from the Chinese Embassy in Prague for his exhibition to be cancelled, dissident Chinese artist Badiucao unveiled a new collection that criticizes China's policies in Hong Kong and Xinjiang and takes aim at Beijing's embrace of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine.