A man detained in possession of an explosive-laden vest in southern Russia said he had planned to detonate it outside the Turkish Embassy, a source close to the investigation said Friday.
At least one person was killed during a bomb attack on a liquor store Friday morning in the capital of the turbulent southern Russian republic of Dagestan, local officials said.
Serbia is planning to extradite Russian national Ilya Goryachev, suspected of involvement in a Russian extremist movement, on Friday, Russia’s Interior Ministry reported.
Former world chess champion turned Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov has asked Latvian politicians to grant him citizenship to help him pursue his political activities in Russia.
Colombia is preparing a letter of protest to Russia after two Russian bomber planes twice entered the Andean nation’s airspace without authorization when flying between Venezuela and Nicaragua last week, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Tuesday.
Russian authorities have extended an investigation involving ex-Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov until 2014, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
The Dutch foreign minister on Tuesday denounced Russia’s law banning homosexual “propaganda” among minors and said the violation of gay rights could be grounds for asylum in the Netherlands.
The Moscow City Court on Wednesday upheld a previous court decision to extend the house arrest of Left Front leader, opposition activist Sergei Udaltsov, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.
Jailed Pussy Riot band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is on her way to a new penal colony in Siberia, her husband said Tuesday, following fears after two weeks without information about her whereabouts.
The United States and Russia failed on Tuesday to agree a date for a Syrian peace conference, remaining divided over what role Iran might play in talks to end the civil war and over who would represent Syria’s opposition.
