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A well-connected Tajik banker has been missing since June with officials saying he was kidnapped and killed by a criminal group that includes former law-enforcement officers. 

Ashurov had just opened fire on two airport staff after being denied entry into the country.

A Tajikistan citizen who fatally shot two security officers at the airport in Moldova's capital last week died Monday from injuries he sustained when officers subdued him, authorities said. The attacker, who Tajikistan prosecutors later identified as Rustam Ashurov, 43, was hospitalized Friday after being seriously injured by security forces who apprehended him after the

Russia's notorious Wagner mercenary group, which carried out a short-lived mutiny on June 23-24, has stopped all recruitment.

At least four people have been detained in Tajikistan in connection with the June 23 abduction and disappearance of Shuhrat Ismatulloev, the deputy chairman of one of the country's leading banks, sources told RFE/RL on July 2.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on July 3 it had thwarted an assassination attempt on Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-backed head of Crimea, the Interfax news agency reported.

Kyrgyz activist Altyn Kapalova wrote on Facebook on July 2 that the Constitutional Court had ordered the government to legalize matronymic names following her long-running battle to allow children to choose to use their mother's name instead of their father's as part of their full legal names.

The European Union is considering a Russian proposal to allow the creation of a subsidiary of the Russian Agricultural Bank to facilitate the extension of a deal that allows Ukraine to export grain via its Black Sea ports.

Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev has appointed Dauren Abaev, the former press secretary of his predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbaev, to the post of ambassador to Russia.

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