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07.07 16:46 FSB: militants have plans to enter North Caucasus through Georgia

FSB has information about the plans of the leaders of armed gangs to penetrate the North Caucasus through Georgia, told reporters the FSB director Alexander Bortnikov on June 7.

07.07 16:39 Police looking for man who deliberately set Moscow region peatlands on fire

Peat bogs in the Moscow suburbs are burning, so fire brigades keep putting them out day and night. Russia’s EMERCOM fears a repetition of last year's situation when the smokescreen paralyzed life in the capital for almost a month.

07.07 14:00 Russian citizen sentenced to death for drug trafficking in China

Supreme People's Court of China has approved the death sentence with a two-year reprieve for a Russian citizen for attempted drug trafficking, told today ITAR-TASS news agency the head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Beijing, Leonid Ignatenko.

06.07 14:09 Rossiyskaya Gazeta publishes list of known terrorists

Wednesday, July 6, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published a list of individuals and organizations that are related to terrorism and extremist activity, consisting of two parts. Altogether, there are 150 organizations and about two thousand people on the list. The journalists claimed that this list will be updated regularly

14.06 18:25 Nationalist-extremist St. Petersburg gang founder sentenced to life imprisonment

In the St. Petersburg city court, the judge has just finished reading the sentence to one of the most famous and notorious nationalist groups, the so-called Borovikov-Voevodin gang. One of the founders and leaders of the extremist organization, Alexei Voevodin, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

06.06 15:22 Moscow court finds Viktor Baturin guilty of large-scale fraud

Viktor Baturin, a former co-owner of Inteko and the brother of Elena Baturina, the wife of ex-mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, was found guilty of fraud.

02.06 16:41 Chief Russian military medics detained for kickbacks

Head of the Main Military Medical Department of the Russian Defense Ministry (GVMU), Major-General of Medical Service Alexander Belevitin was arrested in a criminal corruption investigation. Along with him was detained the head of one of the GVMU departments, Colonel Alexei Nikitin, Interfax reports citing the press service of Russia’s Defense Ministry.

01.06 17:19 Mladic to live in cell with TV and Internet

Former commander of Bosnian Serbs, General Ratko Mladic, nicknamed "the butcher of Bosnia", held his first night in the ICC detention center in The Hague. In a few days, he is going to appear in court on genocide charges.

31.05 17:56 Strasbourg court fines Russia for Khodorkovsky case

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has ordered Russia to pay Mikhail Khodorkovsky €10,000 in damages and another €14.5 thousand in court costs. Having considered the complaint of the Yukos ex-head about the first case, the ECHR found no evidence of political persecution in his case, but recognized the violations of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the confinement conditions and the term of the pending investigation detention.

19.05 18:07 Moscow exchange office cashier burns all cash, afraid of punishment

For five hours, police officers could not enter the currency exchange office in the connecting passage of the Moscow subway station "Arbatskaya". All that time, the office cashier was burning bank notes being scared of the seizure of incriminating evidence.

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Terrorist attack on Baksan HPP (North Caucasus, RF)

The first explosion occurred at 4:20, the second - at 6:00 am Moscow time. Later, several other explosive devices were found in th...

Terrorism in North Caucasus

Terrorism is a policy based on the systematic use of terror. There is no generally accepted legal definition of this concept in th...

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07.07 16:39 Police looking for man who deliberately set Moscow region peatlands on fire

Peat bogs in the Moscow suburbs are burning, so fire brigades keep putting them out day and night. Russia’s EMERCOM fears a repetition of last year's situation when the smokescreen paralyzed life in the capital for almost a month.

07.07 14:00 Russian citizen sentenced to death for drug trafficking in China

Supreme People's Court of China has approved the death sentence with a two-year reprieve for a Russian citizen for attempted drug trafficking, told today ITAR-TASS news agency the head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Beijing, Leonid Ignatenko.

06.07 14:09 Rossiyskaya Gazeta publishes list of known terrorists

Wednesday, July 6, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published a list of individuals and organizations that are related to terrorism and extremist activity, consisting of two parts. Altogether, there are 150 organizations and about two thousand people on the list. The journalists claimed that this list will be updated regularly

14.06 18:25 Nationalist-extremist St. Petersburg gang founder sentenced to life imprisonment

In the St. Petersburg city court, the judge has just finished reading the sentence to one of the most famous and notorious nationalist groups, the so-called Borovikov-Voevodin gang. One of the founders and leaders of the extremist organization, Alexei Voevodin, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

06.06 15:22 Moscow court finds Viktor Baturin guilty of large-scale fraud

Viktor Baturin, a former co-owner of Inteko and the brother of Elena Baturina, the wife of ex-mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, was found guilty of fraud.

01.06 17:19 Mladic to live in cell with TV and Internet

Former commander of Bosnian Serbs, General Ratko Mladic, nicknamed "the butcher of Bosnia", held his first night in the ICC detention center in The Hague. In a few days, he is going to appear in court on genocide charges.

05.05 13:21 Chief emissary of al-Qaeda in North Caucasus killed in Chechnya

Abdullah Kurd, an emissary of the Al-Qaeda international terrorist organization and the chief coordinator of terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus, has been finally eliminated in Chechnya.

04.05 18:14 LUKOIL top manager’s daughter severely beaten before death

According to some sources in the police, the daughter of a top manager of the oil company LUKOIL, Victoria Tesliuc who went missing in late March, was brutally beaten before her death and died from multiple injuries.

12.04 18:29 Facial composites of alleged Minsk terrorists produced

Today, 12 April 2011, the Interior Minister of Belarus Anatoly Kulishov told reporters that the Republic law enforcement authorities had made the facial composites of alleged criminals involved in organizing and conducting the terrorist act that took place in Minsk (the capital of Belarus) on April 11, 2011.

24.01 20:17 Blast at Domodedovo airport in Moscow

A few hours ago today, January 24, a bomb went off at the Domodedovo airport 22 kilometers (14 miles) southeast of Moscow. According to recent reports, 35 people were killed and 46 injured.