Prosecutors asked a Moscow court on April 22 to sentence a 38-year-old man to 5 1/2 years in prison for expressing his thoughts during a street interview with a reporter from RFE/RL in July 2022 about the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Kazakh government has sent additional rescue teams to the Central Asian nation's West Kazakhstan region to deal with ongoing floods, which have hit much of the country's north and west. Meanwhile, across the border in southern Russia, officials braced for the Ishim River to crest.
Police in Russia's northwestern Leningrad region detained Aleksei Serov, a former fighter for the Wagner mercenary group, over the weekend on suspicion of killing and dismembering a 20-year-old woman.
The Minsk City Court on April 22 sentenced a former employee of the Poland-based Belsat television channel, which was declared extremist and banned in the country in November 2021, to two years in prison.
A military court in Russia on April 22 sentenced Andy Stone, the spokesman for Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, in absentia to six years in prison for the "justification of terrorism."
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