A Bishkek court on October 16 extended at least until November 8 the pretrial detention of opposition United Kyrgyzstan party member Zamirbek Shamshidin-uulu, who is accused of organizing mass unrest.
Dozens of activists in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Tatarstan region, have commemorated the Tatars killed during the city's siege by Russian troops in 1552, despite the refusal by authorities to officially allow a mass gathering to mark the 451st anniversary of the Kazan Khanate's fall.
An official of the Turkish Aerospace Industries company, Erol Oguz, said on October 15 that the company's Anka drones will be assembled in Kazakhstan soon, adding that further investments in the project are under discussion.
Prosecutors in Russia's Bashkortostan region have appealed a court decision in September that said the state must pay almost 32 million rubles ($327,400) to an 86-year-old man who served 13 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder and attempted murder in 1959.