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Almaty police detained, without explanation, two activists of the unregistered opposition Democratic Party who came to a meeting with city Mayor Erbolat Dosaev on August 24.
A court in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, on August 24 began the trial of noted activist Ramila Saitova, who was arrested in May over her online posts against Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
One patient died and five were injured in a fire that broke out in one of the emergency and intensive psychiatric ward rooms at the University Clinical Center Kosovo in Pristina on August 23.
Prosecutors asked a court on August 24 in Russia's Siberian region of Buryatia to sentence 61-year-old Natalya Filonova to three years in prison on a charge of assaulting police.
U.S. authorities slapped financial sanctions and a travel ban on the mother of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov and 10 others under Russian-related sanctions.