Three non-governmental organizationsannounced on Monday that they have helped a Syrian man sue in Moscow members of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner for war crimes, accusing them of cruelly killing his brother in Syria.

After having analyzed leaked emails and phone records, Bellingcat reporters were able to present last week how frequent a Russian tycoon has been communicating with the Kremlin and other Russian institutions during his worldwide private military and disinformation activities. 

Authorities in Belarus detained on Wednesday more than 30 men suspected of being Russian mercenaries who were preparing mass riots to “destabilize the situation during the election campaign,” in which Belarus’ long-time ruler is seriously challenged for the first time. 

The three Russian investigative journalists who were killed in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2018, died in a robbery attempt, a senior Russian investigator said Monday in an interview with theKommersant business daily.