Bosnian Serb journalists have staged a spontaneous demonstration outside the parliament of Republika Srpska in Banja Luka against amendments being debated by lawmakers that would criminalize defamation in the media of the Serbian entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Russian parliament's lower chamber has approved a bill expanding Russia's wartime censorship measures to include punishment for anyone considered to have discredited "volunteer" forces such as so-called private military groups involved in Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Activists from two radical political groups in Georgia, Alt-Info and Conservative Movement, burned a European Union flag near the Georgian parliament and removed an EU flag from a flag pole next to the building on March 14.
Belarusian culturologist Aksana Zaretskaya and businessman Bahdan Karavets were sentenced in Minsk on March 14 to 1 1/2 and two years in prison, respectively, on charges of "taking part in activities that blatantly disrupt social order."
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