A bomb blast ripped a trolleybus apart in Volgograd on Monday, killing 14 people in the second deadly attack in the southern city in two days and raising fears of further violence as Russia prepares to host the Winter Olympics.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law would make spreading separatist views a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in jail.
The head of Russia’s Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has called on the Russian parliament to outlaw all radical groups in an effort to fight against terrorism.
An explosion at a train station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd has killed at least 15 people, according to reports.
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister has written to his Russian counterpart to denounce that country’s anti-gay law as Canadian athletes prepare for the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
The Moscow City Court on Thursday sent back to prosecutors the case against Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov and activist Leonid Razvozzhayev, who have been charged with organizing riots on May 6, 2012, RAPSI learnt in the court.
The organizing committee for Russia’s Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics said Thursday it was “not really concerned” that President Barack Obama would not be attending the event.
Five British Greenpeace activists and one Canadian have left Russia after being granted an amnesty from charges over an Arctic oil drilling protest.
Members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a military alliance of former Soviet states, are planning to allocate some 33 billion rubles ($1 billion) to procure new weaponry for its joint rapid reaction force, a senior CSTO official said Thursday.
A Russian cargo plane has crashed into warehouses at a military facility in Siberia, killing all nine people on board, officials have said.
