Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has announced April 4 as the date for the country's next general election.
The judges at the trial of a civil rights activist from Russia's Republic of Tatarstan for mocking President Vladimir Putin and two of his close associates in a YouTube video have banned journalists from attending the proceedings, saying they were adhering to restrictions to combat COVID-19.
The Moscow City Court, for a fifth time since August last year, was unable to select a jury for the high-profile trial of two sisters, Krestina and Angelina Khachaturyan, who along with their youngest sister are accused of killing their father in Moscow in 2018.
The independent BelaPAN news agency says police in Minsk have searched its offices while not allowing the company's lawyer to be present.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that a complaint brought by Ukraine against Russia alleging human rights violations in the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 is “partly admissible.”
A court in Moscow has prolonged pretrial restrictions for the auditor of the Account Chamber, former governor of the Ivanovo region, Mikhail Men, charged with embezzling 700 million rubles ($9.6 million).
Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has been placed on Russia's federal wanted list for allegedly violating the terms of a suspended prison sentence and may be apprehended upon his planned arrival this weekend from Germany.
Moscow authorities have extended restrictions against COVID-19 for another week, with the exception of pupils returning to schools from January 18.
Amnesty International is urging Armenia and Azerbaijan to immediately investigate the use of "inaccurate and indiscriminate weapons" in heavily populated civilian areas during the recent fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, saying such attacks violated international law.
Authorities in Turkmenistan's eastern region of Lebap have instructed employees of state organizations, schools, medical institutions, and schoolchildren to carry personal medicine boxes with them containing, among other items, bottles of licorice-root syrup to tackle possible "lung disease."
The head of the Ukrainian president's office says that Volodymyr Zelenskiy's administration will do "everything in its power to hold...responsible" Ukrainians who meddled in the November U.S. election after Washington imposed sanctions on nearly a dozen Ukrainian nationals and entities.
The head of the OSCE's observer mission for the recent Kyrgyz elections has cited "a number of problems" resulting from Bishkek's hurried choice to conduct a presidential election and a major referendum on the Central Asian state's political system simultaneously.
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