Associates of Aleksei Navalny, who died in February in a Russian penal colony, say a concert has been scheduled in his memory in Berlin on June 4, which would have been the opposition politician’s 48th birthday.
Peter Magyar, an aspiring challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, renewed his calls for change on April 26 as he led a protest of several thousand people demanding a more robust child protection system and the resignation of Orban's government.
A group known as Cyberpartisans claims it has infiltrated the network of Belarus’s main security agency and accessed the personnel files of thousands of employees.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on April 26 rejected criticism over the arrests of journalists and said the fact that people had access to the Internet meant press freedom was assured.
A Kurdish-language teacher in the Iranian city of Sanandaj has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for her cultural activities and support for the Women, Life, Freedom protests that have roiled the country since the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022.
Extra security was deployed to the southern Kazakh village of Zaghambar on April 24 after a reported rape appeared to spark interethnic violence. Several cars and barns were set on fire. Local police say a teenage boy suspected of sexually assaulting a teenage girl was detained.
Russian authorities have reportedly arrested another Tajik national in connection with the March 22 terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow that left 144 people dead and hundreds injured.
After residents of a village in Russia's Tyumen region escaped historic floodwaters, they received no help from the authorities or rescue services despite multiple promises. Some are now living in an open field.
An estimated 150,000 Afghan retirees have not received their pensions since the Taliban seized power in 2021.
In an apparent attempt to prevent possible ethnic clashes, Kazakh authorities have deployed special forces to the town of Zaghambar in the southern region of Turkistan, where tensions are running high following the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl.
A court in Kyrgyzstan on April 26 sent former Deputy Chief of the Anti-Monopoly Service Akjoltoi Tukunov to pretrial detention for at least two months on charge of calling for mass disorders.
The leader of United Kyrgyzstan opposition party Adakhan Madumarov told journalists after he was released from a detention center on April 26 that he will appeal his conviction as the case against him was "ungrounded."
Russia's Justice Ministry said on April 26 that it had asked the Supreme Court to ban what it called the "International Anti-Russia Separatist Movement," a group that does not appear to exist.
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 2023, has ended a hunger strike in a Baku prison, his family said on April 25.
