Belarus diverted and brought down a commercial aircraft bound from Greece to Lithuania after a bomb threat against the plane was received and a prominent independent journalist travelling on board was taken into custody.

Kazakhstan, the world’s ninth biggest country by land mass, yet sparsely populated (19 million, or at 197th in density, one of the lowest in the world), might not be associated with the rush to “Green energy”.

Azerbaijan’s government, on a declared, merciless war-path to root out high-level corruption, has detained officials from the country’s once-sacrosanct, all-mighty customs service.