According to The Moscow Times, at least one person was killed during a bomb attack on a liquor store on Friday in Makhachkala, Dagestan, local officials said. The store may have come under attack because it sold alcohol, an unidentified security official said. Stores purveying liquor have come under sustained intimidation from radical Islamists in the mostly Muslim republic of Dagestan. “It is not the first time that this store has been bombed. The first time it happened was on August 3,” the official said. Read article
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Shanghaidaily.com reports that three gunmen were killed in a search operation by law enforcement in Russia’s North Caucasian republic of Dagestan, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said Monday. “A group of illegal armed units was found in the gorge between the settlements of Kuma and Kundy in Laki district of the republic,” the Itar-Tass news agency […]
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Forbes reports that police in southern Russia allegedly detained, harassed, and threatened to jail two journalists reporting stories critical of the 2014 Sochi Olympics. According to Human Rights Watch, two reporters from Norway’s TV2 — the country’s official Olympics broadcaster — were harassed by Russian police over the course of a three-day reporting trip to […]
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According to adnkronos.com, two migrants were stabbed to death in St. Petersburg by a group of young people. One of the two victims and ‘Uzbek been identified as a 51 year old, the other as a Kyrgyz as was announced by the Russian police. Yesterday in various cities’ Russian ultra-nationalist demonstrations were held. Read article
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According to euronews.com, a double bomb blast in Dagestan has ripped through two shops selling alcohol in the capital Makhachkala in the volatile Russian republic. There is confusion over the death toll – one or two people are reported dead with at least 15 injured. Witness Uma Gadzhieva described a person leaving a box in […]
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According to news.tj, there ought not to seek political motives in a recent attack on Tajik train in Russian territory, Mohammad Egamzod, a spokesman for the Tajik Embassy in Moscow, told Asia-Plus today morning. According to him, this incident should be solved by railway companies of the two countries. “We have familiarized ourselves with comments […]
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According to Al Jazeera, a senior Dutch diplomat was attacked by unknown assailants in Moscow, Russian news agencies have reported, a week after President Vladimir Putin demanded an apology for a Russian diplomat’s alleged beating in the Netherlands. Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans confirmed the attack, that happened late on Tuesday, on his Facebook page […]
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The BBC reports that police in Russia have arrested more than 1,200 people in a raid targeting migrants after major riots in Moscow. The “preventative raid” targeted workers at a vegetable warehouse, which was attacked by demonstrators on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. Angry protesters overran the market searching for migrant workers. The rioting began […]
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According to armradio.com, five were killed and 10 wounded in a major car accident in Russia’s Krasnodar region at 2:40 a.m, RIA Novosti reports. The Mercedes van traveling from Sochi to Yerevan crashed into a track parked on the roadside. Probe into the details of the accident is underway. Read article
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According to themoscowtimes.com, a South Korean tourist turned up unscathed on Monday in a village 40 kilometres from the mountain he was climbing when he went missing. On Sunday rescue workers were informed that the tourist, 76, from South Korea disappeared while taking on Mount Pedan in the Shkotovsky district, Interfax reported. “The tourist from […]
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