KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday only economic and social development could quell an Islamist insurgency in Russia's ...
Putin orders officials in volatile North Caucasus to ensure safety of rights groups Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday ordered officials in ...
A booby-trapped car rammed into a police vehicle Wednesday and exploded, killing six policemen and wounding 14 in the restive Russian republic of Dagestan, Interfax news agency quoted an official as saying. Earlier reports said four policemen died in the blast in ...
Five policemen were killed and 10 wounded Wednesday in an explosion in Dagestan, the Russian republic in the restive North Caucasus region, Ria-Novosti news agency reported quoting a local police official. A booby-trapped car exploded near the traffic police headquarters in Makhachkala, ...
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least six policemen and wounded another 14 people on Wednesday in Russia's southern region of Dagestan by detonating a car packed with explosives at a traffic police depot. Russia is fighting an escalating ...
Militants in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan have received financing from supporters in Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates, television said Saturday, after a special operation yielded notebooks of expenses kept by rebels. The notebooks seized during a ...
NAZRAN, Russia (Reuters) - Gunmen killed two officers of Russia's domestic FSB security service and wounded one in Russia's Ingushetia province on Thursday, prosecutors said. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a nearby police station several hours earlier, killing himself and ...
Russia on Tuesday asked Iran if it would be prepared to supply rare Persian leopards as part of a Russian project to reintroduce the big cat to its Caucasus region. In an unusual example of the strong cooperation between the two countries, ...
A militant Islamist group claimed responsibility Wednesday for last weekend's deadly Russian train bombing, as investigators said the well-planned attack resembled tactics used by Chechen rebels. The so-called "Caucasus Emirate," an umbrella group uniting various Islamist factions, said in a statement posted ...
Islamists from the North Caucasus have claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing of a Russian passenger train, according to a statement posted Wednesday on a website linked to Chechen rebels. "This operation was prepared and executed along with other acts of sabotage, ...
Chechen rebels claim responsibility for bombing Russian train; others hold anti-terror protest Chechen rebels claimed responsibility Wednesday for blowing up a high-speed Russian train last week, an attack that killed 26 people, injured scores of others and raised fears of a fresh ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Islamist militants on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a bombing that derailed a Russian express train, killing 26 people, and vowed further "acts of sabotage" in a letter posted on a rebel website. Friday night's attack on the luxury Nevsky ...
