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Siberian artist Vasily Slonov, known for producing a series of puppets challenging Russia's Soviet past and current government, was detained on February 8 on a charge of demonstrating extremist symbols, his wife said, adding that police searched her husband's workshop and the couple's apartment.
Swiss police say a 32-year-old Iranian asylum seeker was killed by police after he used an axe and a knife to seize more than a dozen hostages for several hours on a train in western Switzerland.
A gunman shot four people dead and wounded another at a market in Georgia's southeastern city of Rustavi, the Interior Ministry of the Caucasus country said on February 9.
More than 128 million registered voters are eligible to cast their votes in parliamentary elections across Pakistan on February 8. The vote comes a day after deadly explosions rocked the southwestern province of Balochistan, killing at least 28 people. RFE/RL correspondent Gul Ayaz reports from Peshawar.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appointed Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskiy as the Ukrainian Army's commander in chief just minutes after announcing it was time for a "renewal" and "renewed leadership" of the country's armed forces.