Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has called for a bigger international presence to ease rising tensions with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh after Russia appointed one of its most senior army commanders to lead a peacekeeping force in the breakaway region.
The prosecution has asked a court in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Bashkortostan region, to convict and sentence Lilia Chanysheva, the former leader of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team, to 12 years in prison.
Police in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Crimea region have detained two Crimean Tatar activists, Edem Ismailov and Bari Bariyev, for unspecified reasons after searching their homes on April 27.
A court has accepted a request from the Culture Ministry to shut down the operations of RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service, known locally as Radio Azattyk a decision the company called "outrageous" over its refusal to remove a video on clashes along a disputed segment of the Kyrgyz-Tajik border.
Kazakhstan's prosecutor-general says the former chief of police of the southern region of Almaty, General Serik Kudebaev, who fled the country to evade trial for abuse of office in a case related to the deadly mass unrest that rocked the country in January 2022, has been apprehended.