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Russian investigators on Thursday named two suspects believed to have been involved in a deadly double explosion in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.

A Moscow court on Thursday revoked the registration of web-based news agency Rosbalt for posting videos it said contained profane language, including a clip by punk band Pussy Riot, in violation of a law adopted earlier this year.

A state commission Wednesday issued a draft outline for a line of unified history textbooks to be published in Russia on the Kremlin’s order.

Ahead of the Sochi Olympics in February, Russia is taking saliva samples from religiously conservative Muslim women, according to locals in the North Caucasus, gathering DNA so authorities can identify the body parts if any become suicide bombers.

A double explosion rocked two adjacent stores in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Wednesday, killing at least one person and injuring several others, police officials said.

Russian investigators have brought new charges against the opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

The Russian Air Force has resumed its use of a polar airfield after a long period of idling, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

A Russian rights organization that promoted public initiatives said Tuesday that it was suspending operations because it is unable to pay a $9,000 fine imposed for failing to register as a “foreign agent.”

A Moscow court postponed hearings Tuesday in the Anna Politkovskaya murder trial for the sixth time in a row as a medical quarantine regime at a detention facility housing one of the defendants remains in force.

Two citizens of Russia as well as one from Ukraine and one from Turkey have been charged with hooliganism in an attempt to scale the Prirazlomnaya oil rig in the Pechora Sea, Greenpeace Murmansk staff press secretary Yulia Pronina said.