Prosecutor General Ion Munteanu News Today

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.

A Tajikistan national who was denied entry into Moldova at its main international airport grabbed a guard's weapon and fatally shot two security officers Friday, officials said. One traveler also was wounded.

Authorities in Moldova say a Tajikistan national who was denied entry into the country at its main international airport grabbed a guard's weapon and fatally shot two security officers.