Russia’s former nuclear minister warned Chechen rebels that if they engage in nuclear terrorism, Moscow would retaliate with such force that the breakaway region would disappear from the map.
Russia’s Supreme Court began deliberating on an appeal
by jailed journalist, Grigory Pasko, against a spying conviction imposed for what campaigners say were legitimate whistle-blowing activities.
Nearly 650 of the released Moscow theatre hostages remain in hospital and more than 200 are in a very serious condition, Russian medical authorities said on Sunday. They said that the death toll so far was 117.
Curtain closes on theatre siege
At least half a million scientists have left Russia over the past decade because of pitifully low wages, a senior science figure said on Thursday.
Six people were killed and another 21 severely injured on Monday when a powerful explosion occurred near Grozny’s central market, ripping apart a municipal bus as it drove by, local pro-Moscow officials told Interfax.
A pro-Russian Chechen official was shot dead and a Russian soldier was killed in a mine blast in the breakaway republic of Chechnya in the past 24 hours, Russian military sources said on Wednesday.
Unknown gunmen shot dead the top bodyguard of Chechnya’s pro-Russian administration chief Akhmad Kadyrov, interior ministry officials said on Wednesday.
Russian forces will not withdraw from Chechnya until rebel leaders and their accomplices have been ”eliminated”, Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has vowed.
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.