A court in Siberia has prolonged the forced treatment in a psychiatric clinic for a Yakut shaman who became known across Russia for his attempts to march to Moscow to drive Russian President Vladimir Putin out of Kremlin.
A court of appeals in St. Petersburg upheld a decision to extradite Belarusian activist Yana Pinchuk to Minsk, where she faces charges for protesting the disputed August 2020 election that kept authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka in power despite accusations that the voting was rigged.
Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev says 78 Russian-owned airplanes have been seized in foreign countries under international sanctions imposed on Moscow over its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Memorial International, Russia's most venerated human rights groups, says the country's Supreme Court has turned down its appeal of a ruling forcing it to close by claiming it violated the onerous "foreign agent" law.
Noted Kyrgyz human rights activists Dinara Oshurakhunova and Ondurush Toktonasyrov have been fined for publicly protesting against Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in front of the Russian Embassy in Bishkek.