The European Union and Britain say Russia masterminded a massive cyberattack against a satellite Internet network that disabled thousands of modems in Ukraine and parts of Central Europe hours before the start of Moscow's invasion on February 24.
A daughter of the late Kazakh dissident poet Aron Atabek, who died in November weeks after his release from a lengthy prison term, has launched an online petition demanding her father's posthumous exoneration.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on regional officials to act quickly in battling forest fires amid a series of blazes in Siberia and the Urals that have killed 16 people in recent weeks, raising fears that this season may be even worse than last year, the worst on record.