Lithuanians stood in a 35,000-strong human chain stretching 34 km (21 miles) from central Vilnius to the Belarus border on Sunday to show support for protesters in Belarus and opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who has taken refuge in the country.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Russia's far eastern city of Khabarovsk to protest against President Vladimir Putin's handling of a regional political crisis and the suspected poisoning of his most vocal critic.
Protesters chanted "Putin, have some tea" as they marched on the city's main thoroughfare, in a reference to the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who fell gravely ill this month after drinking a cup of tea at an airport cafe.
Mr Navalny, 44, was airlifted to Germany last week after collapsing during a flight to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk.
He remains in a medically induced coma in a Berlin hospital, and was being guarded due to concerns for his safety.
