A court in the southern Kazakh city of Qyzylorda has sentenced the former wife of a convicted nephew of the country's former authoritarian president to eight years in prison on charges of embezzlement and the illegal appropriation of shares and assets of several enterprises.
An unidentified gunman has fired at least one bullet at a car belonging to human rights activist and blogger Svyatoslav Khromenkov in the Siberian city of Irkutsk.
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The head of Tajikistan's Committee for Youth and Sports, Abdullo Rahmonzoda, has urged bloggers not to wear beards and stay away from promoting beards online, saying they might be interpreted as "an expression of solidarity with terrorist groups" such as the Taliban.