A court in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg sentenced a man to eight years in prison for the fatal stabbing of a Gabonese student last year, local media reported Monday.

Earlier this month, state prosecutors had requested an 11-year sentence for Daniil Fomin, who was charged with murdering François Ndjelassili in August 2023.

Ndjelassili had

As Russia lays the groundwork for deeper engagement with Central Asia, with a fresh presidential summit reportedly in the works, countries in the region are trying to maintain economic distance from their larger neighbor to the north.

In one of the latest examples, Kyrgyzstan’s central bank on Sept. 6 banned the settlement of trade contracts unless

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said Monday that his country will seriously consider claims that Russian-Israeli businessmanLeonid Nevzlin ordered an attack on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov.

“We will always support the opposition as they fight against the Putin regime, and we will carefully examine all claims about who organized what,” Nauseda tol