Britain on February 21 sanctioned six individuals running the Russian Arctic prison where the death of Kremlin opponent Aleksei Navalny was announced on February 16.
The Bishkek City Court ruled to transfer to house arrest rights defender Anvar Sartaev, who was detained earlier on charges of calling for mass unrest, violent acts against citizens, and disobedience to the orders of authorities.
Lyudmila Navalnaya, the mother of late opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, has filed a lawsuit in a Russian court demanding the release of her son's body as outrage mounts over the authorities' handling of Navalny's death in an Arctic prison.
Amid ongoing efforts to further weaken former President Nursultan Nazarbaev and his associates, the Kazakh government has initiated amendments to the law on the Pantheon that would remove Nazarbaev's relatives from the list of individuals who deserve to be buried at the pricey public site.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, President Andrzej Duda, and members of the European Commission to meet him and members of his government at the Ukrainian-Polish border amid tension caused by Polish farmers' protests against Ukrainian food imports.