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President Radev and government officials relied on clientelism, but a loophole suggesting the massive flagpole is "relocatable" and questions about a main sponsor have left it on shaky ground.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on June 21 that it had arrested a man in the Far Eastern region of Khabarovsk on a charge of high treason stemming from his alleged attempt to send cryptocurrency to Ukraine to raise money for its troops.
The European Union has a "special responsibility" toward Ukraine in the long term, the European Commission's president, Ursula von der Leyen, said June 21, as she outlined investment plans for the country.
The United States has expressed support for a raid by Albanian authorities on a camp near the capital, Tirana, that houses thousands of members of a group of exiled opponents of the Iranian government.
A popular television celebrity in Russia's Siberian region of Sakha-Yakutia refused to anchor a broadcast on the Yakutian traditional Ysyakh Tuimaady holiday after the mayor of the regional capital announced that celebrations would be devoted to supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Lithuanian lawmakers have initiated a process to take away the citizenship of Moscow-born figure skater Margarita Drobiazko over her participation in an event in Russia in August 2022, Lithuania's National Radio and Television reported on June 21.
In the latest move to get distance itself from Russian dominance, Kazakhstan has renamed a town in the region around Astana, the capital, after Kenesary Khan, who led the largest uprising against Russia's colonial troops in Kazakhstan in the 19th century before he was killed in 1847.