The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office on August 16 recognized the Warsaw-registered group For A Free Russia, which assists Russian citizens who face persecution at home and seek asylum abroad, as "an undesirable organization."
The United Nations Security Council is set to hold an emergency meeting regarding the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Azerbaijan's mostly ethnic-Armenian-populated breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh on August 16.
A Russian teenager arrested for publicly burning a Koran in the southwestern region of Volgograd and kept in pretrial detention in Chechnya says he was beaten in a jail cell by Adam Kadyrov, the 15-year-old son of Chechnya's authoritarian leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.