A Russian court on February 29 sentenced a former police officer and a father and son to prison terms of between 3 1/4 and 3 1/2 years for their involvement in making and selling cider tainted with methanol, a highly poisonous type of industrial alcohol, that killed 40 people last summer
Forbes reported on February 29 that billionaires Andrei Baronov and Ratmir Timashev have become the latest tycoons to renounce their Russian citizenship since Moscow launched its ongoing invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Ukraine's armed forces said on February 29 that 19 Russian soldiers were killed and 12 wounded in a missile strike on a group of Russian troops in the town of Olenivka in the Russian-occupied part of the Donetsk region.
Journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, who reported the death of Mahsa Amini in Iranian police custody in September 2022, are freed from prison.
Nahid Taghavi was sentenced to more than 10 years in 2021 on national security charges. Amnesty International says she was “peacefully exercising (her) human rights.”