Russian engineers have presented a parachute they have designed to save people’s lives in skyscrapers after disasters, an idea inspired by the September 11 attacks.
From cocaine smuggling for Colombian drug cartels to criminal betting syndicates in Asia, Russian mobsters have extended their tentacles across the far corners of the globe, backed up by formidable resources at home.
Fugitive Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, told a Russian weekly that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was still alive and vowed that the ”fire” of war will burn down Washington.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said on Monday, ahead of a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Naji Sabri, that Moscow supported ”pre-emptive measures” against global terrorism, but only under UN approval.
A Russian rocket exploded in mid-air seconds after blasting off, killing one man and injuring eight, emergency officials said on Wednesday.
AT least 20 people were killed and more than 100 others wounded on Thursday when a bomb exploded during a military parade in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan.
Chechen rebels based in Georgia’s northern Pankisi Gorge must leave, said Georgian President Eduard Shevarnadze.
Russian President Vladimir Putin may openly profess his pride in his KGB past, but his wife Lyudmila recently disclosed a less-publicised aspect of his personality. According to the First Lady, her husband is a bona fide male chauvinist.
Russia has proposed that Russian-US working parties on missile defense and strategic offensive arms reduction hold their first meetings in Moscow in late October or early November.
Moscow’s theatre community on Wednesday buried two of its bright young talents, swept away when Chechen separatists stormed centre stage last week and turned a light-hearted song-and-dance musical into a tragedy.
Russia’s Alrosa says it expects the European Commission to force it to cut the value of its rough diamond sales to De Beers by 25% before approving a five-year deal between the two.
Ninety-nine servicemen were killed and 33 injured when a troop transport helicopter fell into a minefield in the biggest single-day casualty count in the second Chechen war.
The Chechen conflict, which led Wednesday to a daring hostage crisis in downtown Moscow, has already claimed the lives of 4 500 troops according to official figures, with between 10 000 and 20 000 civilians killed.
Explosions heard near theatre
The FBI receives many complaints about these services, but others insist ”e-mail brides” are driven by more innocent desires and simply prefer the life and manners of Western men
Rescue workers have been able to recover only nine bodies among the more than 100 people missing in the wake of a huge avalanche in the Russian Caucasus, the emergencies ministry said on Tuesday.
The band of heavily armed Chechen rebels holding hundreds of hostages at a Moscow theatre agreed early on Friday to free all 75 foreigners held captive, the first major breakthrough in the crisis as the siege entered its second day.
Special forces troops took control of a Moscow theatre in the early hours of Saturday morning where hundreds of hostages were being held by Chechen rebels, killing their leader and freeing all the captives.