Russian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who died earlier this year in a Siberian penal colony. Yulia Navalnaya left Russia in 2021 and has lived in Germany ever since. If she returns to Russia, she faces arrest and at least two months in jail.

Meanwhile, a court in Moscow has sentenced a playwright and a theater director to six years in prison after they were convicted on charges of “justifying terrorism.” Authorities objected to a play produced by Yevgeniya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk about Russian women marrying Islamic State fighters in Syria. Many prominent artists have left Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, after authorities tightened censorship laws and launched a crackdown on antiwar voices.