Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been left without electricity following massive Russian air strikes on Ukraine's infrastructure, which prompted President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to launch another impassioned appeal to Western allies to provide Kyiv with desperately needed air-defense systems.
The wife of Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza said her husband has been held in solitary confinement for the last six months in a jail cell that is just a few square meters with a single stool, a tiny window covered with bars, and a bed that folds into the wall.
Democratic governance in Central Europe and Central Asia declined for a 20th consecutive year, according to rights watchdog Freedom House, driven by Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Azerbaijan's "military conquest" of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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