The upper chamber of Kazakhstan's parliament, the Senate, approved on June 29 a bill on returning financial assets illegally transferred to foreign banks.
Russia has declared the Latvia-based Novaya Gazeta Europe newspaper an "undesirable" organization amid the government's ongoing crackdown on civil society and independent organizations.
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The trial of Eduard Babaryka, son of prominent Belarusian political prisoner Viktar Babaryka, has begun. Babaryka spent three years in pretrial detention and now faces up to 20 years in prison on a slew of charges he rejects. Supporters say he is being persecuted because he is his father's son.
Russian forces launched 20 missile strikes over the past 24 hours on localities in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kharkiv regions, the General Staff of the Ukrainian military said in its daily report on May 23 as air raid alerts were declared for hours.