Aleksei Dyumin, a former bodyguard to Russian President Vladimir Putin who was recently named a top Kremlin aide, has been appointed secretary of the State Council.
Georgia's so-called "foreign agent" law is expected to land back on President Salome Zurabishvili's desk after lawmakers on May 28 overrode her veto, prompting fresh protests against the piece of legislation seen as mirroring a repressive Russian measure.
Protesters started gathering outside of Georgia's parliament as legislators opened a plenary session to consider overriding President Salome Zurabishvili's veto of the so-called foreign agent law.
The Supreme Court in Russia's Tatarstan region on May 28 handed a suspended two-year prison sentence to antiwar activist Zulfia Sitdikova, who was convicted of rehabilitating Nazism and discrediting Russia's military.
Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who went missing in the Russia-occupied part of Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhya region last August, has turned up in Russian custody.