Russia said Wednesday it will boycott maritime court hearings sought by the Netherlands over the fate of 30 crew members of a Greenpeace ship who were detained during a protest against Arctic oil drilling.
President Vladimir Putin accused foreign rivals on Tuesday of using radical Islam to weaken Russia and appealed to Muslim clerics to help reduce tensions after a deadly suicide bombing and nationalist riots.
Russian investigators disclosed details Tuesday about the movements of an alleged bomber who killed six on a bus in Volgograd on Monday, saying that she originally had a bus ticket to Moscow.
Russian authorities are moving to expand surveillance of the Internet by requiring service providers to store all traffic temporarily and make it available to the top domestic intelligence agency.
A lawyer for the leader of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya asked investigators Monday to open a criminal case against a judge who ruled against the lawyer last year.
A Russian antifascist activist and punk rocker who recently appealed against an international arrest warrant for him is back on Interpol’s wanted list, the organization’s Russian bureau said Monday.
The Netherlands asks International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to order Russia to release 30 Greenpeace activists.
An explosion that killed at least five people on a bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd was caused by a bomb, Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee has said in a statement.
Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev is to carry out community service for brawling with a fellow tycoon on a television show in 2011 in a village 250 kilometers outside Moscow.
Newly-elected Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the Kremlin-backed incumbent who recently won the poll to stay at the helm of the Russian capital, has admitted he consulted with President Vladimir Putin about what role his rival, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, should play in the mayoral election.
