A court in Belarus has sentenced journalist Larysa Shchyrakova to 3 1/2 years in prison after finding her guilty of "facilitating extremist activities" and "discrediting" Belarus as a crackdown on dissent by the country's authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka continues.
The Homel regional court in southeastern Belarus has started the trial of journalist Larysa Shchyrakova on charges of facilitating extremist activities and discrediting Belarus as a crackdown on dissent by the country's authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka continues.
Ukraine's parliament on July 27 voted to strip Yuriy Aristov, a lawmaker from President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's Servant Of the People party, of his mandate because he has been out of the country for almost two months on vacation.