Several thousand people gathered in Belgrade on Dec. 30 to protest violations during parliamentary and municipal elections held in Serbia on Dec. 17, marching from the Terazije Fountain to the Constitutional Court, symbolically displaying "red cards" along the way, Serbian TV news channel N1 reported on Dec. 30.
Unidentified perpetrators on December 27 destroyed a plaque commemorating the victims of the deportation of Kalmyks just two days after it was unveiled at a railway station in Volgograd.
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A court in Russia's Kirov region on December 26 sentenced the region's imprisoned former governor, Nikita Belykh, to an additional 2 1/2 years in prison on a charge of abuse of power but spared him from serving the fresh sentence, citing the statute of limitations.