Chinese student and vlogger Xui Haoyang has fled Russia after a court in the Republic of Tatarstan found him guilty of violating Russia's law on promoting homosexuality, often called the gay propaganda law, and ordered his deportation.
Police in the Russian city of Saratov on April 24 detained former Wagner member Azamat Uldarov, who publicly said weeks earlier that the mercenary group's fighters killed civilians, including children, in Ukraine.
Russia-imposed police in Ukraine's Moscow-annexed Crimea have detained Crimean Tatar activist Abdureshit Dzhepparov after searching his home on April 25, the Crimean Solidarity human right groups says.
Ethnic Serbs have boycotted en masse local elections in four majority-Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo where Serb mayors resigned last November to protest a cross-border dispute over vehicle registrations.
Police in Osh, Kyrgyzstan's second-largest city, have detained a former leader of the city's Uzbek culture center, Karamat Abdullaeva, who was sentenced in absentia to 16 years in prison for her alleged role in deadly ethnic clashes more than a decade ago.