- Conscripts are being refused alternative civilian service en masse over their school “life safety” (OBZh) classes. Top grades in these subjects are being treated as evidence of an absence of pacifist convictions.
- A Russian deserter detained in Georgia has been granted the status of an applicant for international protection. It may help him avoid expulsion to Russia.
- Georgia’s Supreme Court has ruled admissible the extradition of Mikhail Timofeev to Russia.
- “There’s no need to cry ‘Wolf!’ when there’s no reason to”: what actually happened in Lithuania with lawyer Anton Butorin.
- Sole proprietor status in Georgia is no longer enough: foreign nationals may be checked for a work permit.
- In Southern California, a court has restricted warrantless ICE arrests.
- Thailand is tightening controls on DTV visas: deportations and blacklists.
- In The Hague, Russian embassy staff refused to let a Russian carrying a Ukrainian flag in to vote. At a polling station in Serbia, a woman was turned away over a tote bag in LGBT colours, as was a man in a T-shirt printed with a school bus-cum-prison van.
- Monaco has begun purging wealthy Russians from its banks.
“Chuzhie” (EXILES) is a Russian-speaking community of lawyers defending migrants in Europe. If you need help, write to us here or by email.
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