The deputy governor of the Kalman district in the Siberian region of Altai Krai, Vitaly Manishin, has confessed to killing five women who were applicants to a local university in 2000, media reports cited sources as saying on June 23.
Moscow says it has detained several people it claims are linked to Ukraine who were trying to buy radioactive material and smuggle it out of the country to cause an incident "to discredit Russia."
Kazakh journalist Duman Mukhammedkarim has been sent to pretrial detention for at least two months on a new charge instead of being released as expected after serving out a 25-day jail term on a charge of violating regulations for public gatherings last month.
Australian media reports said that a Russian man with diplomatic immunity has been squatting on the site where Moscow wanted to build a new embassy in Canberra before lawmakers blocked the plan last week over security concerns.
Poland has deported Tajik national Sorbon Abdurahimzoda to Dushanbe despite a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) forbidding the move, Abdurahimzoda's lawyer, Bogumil Zygmont, told RFE/RL on June 23.