Russian-imposed police in Ukraine's Moscow-annexed Crimea detained a Crimean Tatar human rights activist, Lutfiye Zudiyeva, after searching her home on February 22, said the Crimean Solidarity human rights groups, of which Zudiyeva is a member.
Russian authorities have added a former prominent Russian journalist who currently works for the Kyiv-based Ukrayina 24 TV channel to their list of terrorists and extremists.
Independent Kazakh journalist Duman Mukhammedkarim, who is on trial for what he says are politically motivated charges of financing an extremist group and participating in a banned group's activities, has launched a hunger strike to demand that his court hearings be open to the public.
The Kyrgyz parliament on February 22 approved on second reading a controversial bill that would allow authorities to register organizations as "foreign representatives" in a way that critics say mirrors repressive Russian legislation on so-called foreign agents.
Russian parliament's Federation Council on July 28 approved a bill raising the maximum age for mandatory one-year military service for men to 30 from 27.