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, which would have been the opposition politician’s th birthday.

   Peter Magyar, an aspiring challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, renewed his calls for change on April 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 rejected criticism over the arrests of journalists and said the fact that people had access to the Internet meant press freedom was assured.

   A British man has been charged over alleged hostile state activity intended to benefit Russia, including by allegedly recruiting others for an arson attack on a Ukrainian linked commercial property in London.

   A Kurdish language teacher in the Iranian city of Sanandaj has been sentenced to 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 .

   Russian authorities have reportedly arrested another Tajik national in connection with the March terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow that left people dead and hundreds injured.

   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said the continued occupation by Russia of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant Europe’s largest heightens the danger of a nuclear catastrophe.

   Four people, including three children, were wounded early on April when Russian troops shelled the village of Derhachi in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Synyehubov said.

   The bodies of Ukrainian servicemen killed in action have been returned to Ukraine, the Kyiv based Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War announced in a statement on April .

   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 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 that he will appeal his conviction as the case against him was ungrounded.

   Russia’s Justice Ministry said on April 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.

   A Russian court sentenced businessman Oleg Kan in absentia on April to years in prison after being convicted of ordering the assassination of a business rival in .

   Spain will send a small number of Patriot missiles to Ukraine in response to pressure from EU and NATO allies to send more military aid to Kyiv, according to a report published on April .

   Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskiy was released from custody on April after posting bail following his arrest earlier in the day over accusations that he had illegally acquired land worth about million hryvnyas million .

   The United States will provide Ukraine with Patriot missiles for its air defense systems as part of a massive billion additional aid package, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on April after a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.

   A military court in Siberia has handed prison terms to two teenagers over graffiti they painted protesting Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine in .

   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 to February , has ended a hunger strike in a Baku prison, his family said on April .