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A member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami international terrorist network has been detained in the Moscow Region, a source from the Russian Interior Ministry press center told Interfax.

A 20-year program to convert highly enriched uranium from dismantled Russian nuclear weapons into fuel for U.S. power plants ended Thursday, with the final shipment loaded onto a vessel in St. Petersburg’s port.

A man sought by Russian authorities over his suspected involvement in deadly blasts in southern Russia in 2001 has been detained in Ukraine, security services in Kiev said Wednesday.

The Russian Supreme Court has rejected an appeal challenging the sentences handed down to YUKOS CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev, Khodorkovsky’s press office said on Thursday.

A gunman who opened fire on police Wednesday in Russia’s restive republic of Dagestan was killed and a police officer wounded, a spokesman for the local Interior Ministry said.

The U.S. decided it will no longer buy Mi-17 helicopters from Moscow-based Rosoboronexport, the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday.

Russia is negotiating its biggest weapons deals with Egypt since the Cold War as it seeks to capitalize on U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to cut defense aid to the military-backed government.

Moscow police detained a woman Tuesday evening that they suspect of shooting a migrant rights campaigner earlier in the week.

A Russian warship has docked in Egypt’s port of Alexandria in a move that officials said was aimed at bolstering Cairo’s relations with Moscow ahead of one of the highest level visits by Russian officials to the country in decades.

Journalist Oleg Kashin has filed a complaint with a Moscow district court accusing the Federal Security Service of failing to investigate a brutal attack that had left him in a coma for a week three years ago, his lawyer said.