The Belarusian authorities have declared a two-volume compilation of works by a 19th-century writer who is considered a father of Belarusian literature "extremist."
The Kazakh parliament's lower chamber, the Mazhilis, approved in its first reading on November 15 a bill on creating a military reserve that would allow, in case of emergency, to quickly organize their mobilization.
Police in the Armenian city of Ashtarak have detained a 21-year-old woman who fled her native region of Ingushetia in Russia's North Caucasus to escape domestic violence, Russian women's rights defender Svetlana Anokhina told RFE/RL on November 15.
Adam Kadyrov, the 15-year-old son of the authoritarian ruler of the Russian region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was awarded with the Order for Serving Islam on November 15, his seventh award since he beat up Russian teenager Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested for burning a Koran in August.