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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.
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.
Hundreds of supporters gathered in Moscow on December 24 to back the potential presidential candidacy of Igor Girkin (aka Strelkov), once a leader of Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine's east who is now jailed.
Seven police officers were injured in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, late on December 24 as riot police tried to prevent hundreds of opposition supporters from entering the city council building in protest at alleged fraud during a general election last weekend, authorities said.