A court in Kazakhstan has rejected a request for political asylum filed by a man from the Russian region of Kalmykia who left a military unit in Russia's Volgograd to avoid taking part in the war in Ukraine.
A court in Moscow on April 21 issued an arrest warrant for Christo Grozev, a Bulgarian investigative journalist with the Bellingcat group. The warrant was issued on a charge of allegedly crossing Russia's border illegally In December.
Damages caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine are estimated at $143.8 billion, deputy chief of Ukraine's Committee of National Security, Defense, and Intelligence, Yuriy Aristov, said on April 21.
The prosecution has asked Minsk court to convict and sentence Raman Pratasevich, a journalist who was detained in Belarus in 2021 after the commercial flight he was on was forced to land in Minsk, to 10 years in prison less than half the maximum possible on charges linked to his reporting.