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A 20-year-old Chechen native was arrested at a Moscow airport on June 12 after her relatives in the North Caucasus region filed a formal accusation of theft. The woman, who has complained of violence from her family for years, has not been heard from since officials sent her back to Chechnya.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has signed a bill approved by lawmakers last month to set May 8 as the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II, instead of the Soviet-inherited celebrations of Victory Day on May 9.

Police have detained a 19-year-old Chechen woman at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport while she was on her way out of Russia to escape domestic violence, rights defenders told RFE/RL on June 12.

The subsidies that Poland has given to its farmers in response to a surge in grain exports from Ukraine aren't in line with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, Ukrainian Deputy Economy Minister Taras Kachka said on June 12.

Tajikistan's Children's Ombudsman's Office said in its annual report on June 11 that 69 people younger than 18, including four with psychiatric conditions, committed suicide in the Central Asian country in 2022.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director Rafael Grossi says he is en route to Ukraine where he'll meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and present an assistance program for "catastrophic" flooding in the country sparked by last week's breach of the Kakhovka dam.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Russian prosecutor’s office to withdraw the 350-page complaint it has brought against the Journalists’ and Media Workers’ Union (JMWU), which could result in this independent union being disbanded. The union learned about the complaint on 13 July.  

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