Russian rapper Navai released from jail and deported from Kazakhstan after drug smuggling case dropped

Russian rapper Navai Bakirov, known as Navai, has been released from a pretrial detention center in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstani police told the Russian state news agency TASS that the criminal case against him on drug smuggling charges was dropped in light of his “active repentance.” The prosecutor’s office has already approved the decision to drop the case.