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Investigators in Russia’s Siberian city of Chita said Friday that an unidentified person has firebombed the local headquarters of the powerful Investigative Committee.

Russia is investigating reports one of its citizens was kidnapped in Syria after a video of the man pleading to be rescued was posted online, a report said Thursday.

Russia’s chief sanitary inspector, Gennady Onishchenko has been removed from his post and given a new job.

A United Russia party deputy on Wednesday called for Vkontakte’s founder, Pavel Durov, to be charged with extremism over an image relating to the Volgograd bombing that appeared on the social networking website.

Two Turkish fighter jets have been recently scrambled to intercept a Russian military plane in international airspace over the Black Sea in a rare air incident between the two countries, the Turkish military said.

Russia has dropped piracy charges against 30 Greenpeace activists, replacing them with hooliganism charges, according to officials.

Allegations of the possible involvement of the Washington-based Russian Cultural Center in spying activities are an attempt to derail the Russian-US program of cultural exchange and undermine mutual trust, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy said.

A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Wednesday that a meeting of 11 nations on resolving the Syrian conflict resulted in a call for regime change, a challenge that upsets plans for a peace conference in Geneva.

Convicted Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been moved from the penal colony in Mordovia where she was serving her sentence to a prison in the republic of Chuvashia, her husband said Wednesday. Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/tolokonnikova-transferred-to-chuvashia-husband-says/488380.html#ixzz2iYzeesoj The Moscow Times

Russia’s defense minister said Wednesday that chemical weapons in Syria must be seized from the rebels as well as the government.