The 17-year-old widow of an Islamist militant from the North Caucasus is suspected of blowing herself up in suicide attacks that killed 40 in Moscow.
New York police doubled patrols of the subway system and sent police cars to transit hubs as a precaution following the Moscow subway bombings.
Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on packed metro trains in Moscow’s morning rush hour on Monday, killing at least 38 people.
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/ 28 September 2009
A Russian journalist has gone into hiding after receiving threats over an article that criticised the country’s Soviet past, a website said on Monday.
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/ 8 September 2009
Moscow on Tuesday denied reports a cargo ship that went missing in the Atlantic had been carrying a Russian air-defence system to Iran.
A Chinese delegation left on Wednesday for talks in Moscow on the fate of 150 merchants seized by Russian authorities in a smuggling crackdown.
Russia launched large-scale military exercises across parts of its southern regions on Monday which Georgia angrily said would violate its territory.
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/ 20 January 2009
An abrupt rise in Russian gas prices will undermine Ukraine’s economic and energy security and leave some enterprises on the brink of insolvency.
Russia and Ukraine held talks over a solution to the escalating gas dispute, it was reported on Thursday.
Russia halts gas supplies to the Balkans, Turkey and south-eastern Europe, while flows to Austria drop by 90% in a deepening price row
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/ 25 November 2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is hoping to make inroads into Brazil’s emerging oil and defence industries during a visit there this week.
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/ 20 September 2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Nato of provoking the conflict with Georgia but said this did not mean Russia planned to isolate itself.
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/ 14 September 2008
A Russian Boeing 737-500 airliner crashed near the Ural mountains on Sunday, killing all 88 people on board, officials said.
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/ 9 September 2008
Russia will keep its troops inside Georgian separatist regions for a long time and their presence is not affected by an agreement to pull out troops.
An explosion tore through an apartment building early on Wednesday, killing two people in the southern Russian city of Sochi.
Manchester United were crowned kings of Europe for the third time on Wednesday when they beat Chelsea 6-5 on penalties after a breathless all-English Champions League final had finished 1-1 after extra time. United’s 37-year-old goalkeeper, Edwin van der Sar, saved the decisive spot kick from substitute Nicolas Anelka.
The first time a player takes to the field in a Champions League final is always a special moment in his career, but for Paul Scholes there will be extra significance on Wednesday in Moscow. The Manchester United midfielder has had to wait longer than most and, even more poignantly, this opportunity has come nine years after it should have done.
Chelsea may be playing their first Champions League final and Manchester United appearing in the showpiece event only after a nine-year absence, but there will be no shortage of experience when the two sides line up at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on Wednesday.
Russian space scientists announced on Thursday a new breakthrough in a long pedigree of firsts: the birth of 30 grandchildren of a "space cockroach" who spent 12 days in orbit. Interfax news agency reported the birth of 30 healthy descendants of the pioneering cockroach Nadezhda (Hope).
Algeria has started negotiations with Russia on receiving SU-30 fighter jets in exchange for a consignment of faulty MiG-29 warplanes it returned in 2006, Interfax news agency reported on Thursday. Long-time Russian ally Algeria sent back 15 MiG-29s for containing sub-standard parts and has now begun talks on replacing them with up to 16 SU-30s.
Vladimir Putin on Thursday took over as Russia’s Prime Minister a day after leaving the Kremlin and pledged to curb inflation and cut taxes to make Russia a leading economic power. Putin said in a speech to Parliament presenting his candidacy that he wanted ”single-digit inflation within a few years.
Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in as President in a solemn ceremony in the Kremlin’s throne room on Wednesday, ushering in an unprecedented period of dual rule with his predecessor Vladimir Putin, who becomes Prime Minister. Medvedev placed his hand on a red, leather-bound copy of the Russian Constitution to take the oath of office before 2 000 invited guests.
Russia showed off on Tuesday the first modernised Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber, which a senior air force official said would help Moscow match the nuclear capability of a potential enemy. Russian television showed the giant, white-painted airplane releasing parachutes to slow down the speed as it landed at Engels airbase in the Volga region of Saratov.
Georgia is preparing to invade its breakaway region of Abkhazia, Russia said on Tuesday, days after Moscow warned it would defend its Abkhaz allies if they came under attack. It said Georgia had amassed 1 500 soldiers and police in the upper Kodori Gorge, a pocket of breakaway Abkhazia, which is controlled by Tbilisi.
A Russian space capsule landed about 420km off course in Kazakhstan on Saturday but the three-member crew was safe, an official at the mission control centre said. ”The capsule landed with an overshoot. Such things happen,” said mission control spokesperson Valery Lyndin. It landed about 20 minutes past its scheduled time.
Russians have long used drink to take the edge off workplace stress: lately one man’s senses were so dulled he failed to notice a knife stuck in his back by a colleague, newspapers reported on Thursday. A factory electrician in the town of Vologda was stabbed by the building’s security guard as they were having a drunken argument.
Russia will take military and other steps along its borders if ex-Soviet Ukraine and Georgia join Nato, Russian news agencies quoted the armed forces’ chief of staff as saying on Friday. ”Russia will take steps aimed at ensuring its interests along its borders,” the agencies quoted General Yuri Baluyevsky as saying.
Russian generals will soon have a stylish new uniform designed by a top fashion designer, but the question is: Will they fit? More than 30% of the army’s elite officers are overweight and 25% failed a fitness test, army spokesperson Vyacheslav Sedov said on Wednesday.
The fate of bids by ex-Soviet Ukraine and Georgia to join Nato will show if the Western alliance is serious about cooperating with Russia or bent on going it alone, a Kremlin spokesperson said on Friday. Dmitry Peskov said that despite its longstanding status as a partner of Nato, Moscow was still at a loss about the alliance’s plans.
Russian president-elect Dmitry Medvedev maintained pressure on Nato on Tuesday not to grant membership to Ukraine and Georgia, saying a week before an alliance summit that it would undermine European security. Ukraine and Georgia are lobbying Nato to grant them a Membership Action Plan, which is seen as the first step towards joining the alliance.
Russian energy exports are close to reaching a milestone -billion per day value mark bringing in more money for social spending and creating additional inflationary pressure, a report said on Tuesday. Russian brokerage UralSib said in written research high earnings may also prompt the government to alleviate the tax burden on the oil sector
Russian helicopters rescued 775 fishermen stranded on ice sheets drifting into the Pacific Ocean on Sunday. The men had walked a few kilometres across the ice pack surrounding the remote island of Sakhalin in Russia’s far-east to fish over the ocean, news agencies quoting local emergency services reported.