Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian mercenary leader whose brazen rebellion posed the biggest challenge to Vladimir Putin in his more than two decades in power, died in a plane crash on August 23, according to investigators. He was 62.
Belarusian authorities in the northeastern district of Polatsk have detained Aleh Rudakou, the former founding chairman of the Belarusian Culture Society in the Russian region of Irkutsk.
The Kremlin denies involvement in the plane crash near Moscow that is believed to have killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner group that ran afoul of President Putin by launching a short-lived mutiny against Russia's top army brass over how the war against Ukraine was being conducted.
Another political prisoner in Belarus, Viktoria Haurylina, has gone on trial amid a part of a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent. The Homel regional court started the trial on August 25.