A Russian court sentenced businessman Oleg Kan in absentia on April 26 to 17 years in prison after being convicted of ordering the assassination of a business rival in 2010.
https://www.rferl.org/a/oleg-kan-crab-king-sakhalin-trial-in-absentia/32921631.html
Spain will send a small number of Patriot missiles to Ukraine, El Pais newspaper reported April 26, in response to pressure from EU and NATO allies to send more military aid to Kyiv.
https://www.rferl.org/a/spain-patriot-missiles-ukraine-eu-pressure/32921640.html
Ukraine's anti-corruption court on April 26 ordered that Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskiy be taken into custody over accusations that he had illegally acquired land worth about 291 million hry...
The Ukraine Defense Contact Group, also known as the Ramstein Format, is to hold a virtual meeting on April 26 to discuss ways to speed up the delivery of much-needed military aid for Ukrainian f...
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-ramstein-meeting-military-support-russia/32921421.html
A military court in Siberia has handed prison terms to two teenagers over graffiti they painted protesting Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
https://www.rferl.org/a/lizunova-snezhkov-sentence-graffiti-protest-ukraine/32920718.html
Ruben Vardanian, a former Russian citizen of Armenian descent who served as prime minister in the de facto government of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh from November 2022 to February 20...
https://www.rferl.org/a/armenia-russia-nagorno-karabakh-hunger-strike-vardanian/32920938.html
Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to visit China in May. Putin announced the plans on April 25 at a congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-putin-china-visit-xi/32920907.html
The U.S. Treasury Department on April 25 issued further sanctions targeting companies that manufacture, sell, and ship Iranian drones as part of an effort to curb their use by Russia in its full-...
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-drone-us-sanctions-russia-ukraine/32920878.html
Ukraine's agriculture minister offered to resign on April 25 after he was named as a suspect in a multimillion-dollar corruption investigation.
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-corruption-agriculture-resignation-solskiy/32920843.html
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on April 25 that in the interest of the country's national defense it is possible to nationalize industrial facilities.
https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-nationalization-defense-war-ukraine-economy-security/32920741.html
RFE/RL has been given exclusive access to a Ukrainian thermal power plant that was badly damaged after Russian missile attacks in late March. Officials, who asked that the location not be identif...
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-attacks-energy-sector-blackouts-/32920734.html
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron told RFE/RL that his country is open for deeper partnership with Kazakhstan.
https://www.rferl.org/a/kazakhstan-britain-cameron-interview-rferl-talks-toqaev/32920596.html
Iranian civil political activists, including several who are currently imprisoned, have condemned the government's "military" aggression toward women through its renewed enforcement of the mandat...
Georgia has been slammed for trying to pass a Russian-style “foreign agent” law, while recent tax changes that critics warn will attract dirty money and offer the ruling Georgian Dream party�...
https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-tax-haven-critics-oligarch-ivanishvili/32920667.html
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov has been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes worth $10 billion, according to Russian media. He could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. An...
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-shoigu-ivanov/32920607.html
A Sarajevo exhibition is providing women a voice as to why they made the perilous journey to cross the Mediterranean in search of a better life. Members of Doctors Without Borders in Bosnia spoke...
https://www.rferl.org/a/testimonies-of-rescued-mediterranean-migrant-women/32920008.html
European lawmakers are expected to vote on April 26 on a resolution that calls for the "immediate and unconditional release" of all political prisoners held in Russia, including journalists Alsu ...
Four people were arrested in Georgia as part of a Europe-wide operation to bust a gang of thieves specialized in the stealing of rare books, the Georgian prosecutor's office said on April 25.
https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-rare-book-thieves-arrests-pushkin-gogol-europol/32920534.html
A Bishkek court fined activist Kanykei Aranova 120,000 soms ($1,350) on April 25 for inciting hatred and released her on condition that she will not leave the Kyrgyz capital.
https://www.rferl.org/a/kanykei-aranova-kempir-abad-water-reservoir/32920408.html
A Moscow court on April 25 fined Anastasia Ivleyeva, the organizer of a party in December that sparked a scandal, 50,000 rubles ($535) on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-naked-party-ivleyeva-discrediting-military/32920445.html