The Russian State Duma on July 18 adopted a bill raising the age limit for several key positions in the reserve by five years and raising the upper age limit for compulsory military service from 27 to 30.
A Bucharest court ruled on August 4 to release divisive Internet personality Andrew Tate from house arrest where he is awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, placing him under judicial control, a lighter restrictive measure.
Two people were reportedly killed and a child seriously wounded early on July 17 in what Moscow claimed was an attack by Ukraine on a major rail-and-road bridge linking Russia with the Crimean Peninsula it annexed in 2014.
Kosovo has bought a batch of Turkish-made Bayraktar drones, Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on July 16 as the Balkan country faces unrest in the north where ethnic Serbs refuse to recognize Pristina authorities.
An estimated 10,000 people took part in the Pride march -- an annual international LGBT rights celebration event -- in the Hungarian capital. On July 15 participants protested against tightening restrictions over public displays of LGBT community members’ identities and information about them.
Oilfield services company SLB -- formally known as Schlumberger -- on July 14 announced that it is halting shipments of products and technology into Russia from all SLB facilities worldwide in response to international sanctions.
An alleged Russian intelligence officer accused by the United States of smuggling U.S.-origin electronics and ammunition to Russia to help its war against Ukraine was extradited from Estonia, federal prosecutors said on July 14.
One person was killed in an accident at a uranium enrichment plant in Russia's Urals region on July 14, the RIA Novosti news agency said, but the factory said radiation levels at the site and surrounding area were normal.
The UN Human Rights Council has approved a contentious resolution on religious hatred in the wake of the burning of a Koran in Sweden.
A number of houses in the small village of Krivtsovo near Moscow were on fire over an area of 3,200 square meters early on July 12, Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
The United States is “deeply disappointed” by Russia’s “inhumane veto” against the UN renewal of Turkish delivered aid to Syria, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on July 11.
Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy will go to Turkey on July 11 for talks with his Turkish counterpart about extending the deal that allows Ukraine to export grain from its Black Sea ports, the minister said on Facebook.
Russia's most senior general, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, was shown ordering subordinates to destroy Ukrainian missile sites in a video released on July 10, in what would be his first appearance in public since a failed June 24 Wagner mercenary mutiny.
Poland has detained another suspected member of a Russian spy network, bringing the total number of people detained as part of an investigation to 16, Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said on August 4.
Polls have closed in the July 9 presidential election in Uzbekistan. Despite partial reforms, political competition and access to information remain restricted. AFP filmed in the capital, Tashkent, at polling stations and with a mobile team taking a ballot box to elderly people voting from home.
The departure of hundreds of Russian Wagner troops from the Central African Republic is part of a rotation of forces rather a withdrawal, a spokesperson for the C.A.R. presidency said on July 8.
Up to 2,000 anti-LGBT protesters broke up a Gay Pride festival in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on July 8, scuffling with police and destroying props, including rainbow flags and placards, though there were no reports of injuries.
Lancet suicide drones have had significant success targeting Ukrainian armor, including high-value Western weapons. The drones have spawned increasingly unorthodox countermeasures.
NATO has turned Vilnius into a fortress defended by advanced weaponry to protect U.S. President Joe Biden and other alliance leaders meeting next week only 32 kilometers from Lithuania's razor-wire topped border fence with Russian ally Belarus.
Mercenary fighters of Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner group are preparing to move to Belarus under the terms of a deal that defused their mutiny against Russia's military leadership, a senior commander of the group was quoted as saying.
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