breitbart.com reported…The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Naryn-Kala fortress in Dagestan, in which shots were fired at a tour group, killing one and wounding 11 others.
“A statement posted to IS’s main channel on the Telegram messaging app said the attack had targeted Russian intelligence agency officers,” the BBC reports.
Although initial reports described the slain victim as a border policeman, RT.com now says “the person killed was a warrant officer with the FSB (the Russian Federal Security Service),” while one of the injured was “a member of the Russian border service from the city of Bryansk.” Read Article
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As many as 27,000 Russian tourists are stranded abroad after a Russian tour firm, Labirint, suspended operations. A company statement (in Russian) blamed the move on a deterioration in the rouble exchange rate and the “negative political and economic situation”. There are signs that EU-US sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis are hurting the […]
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blog.al.com reported an American journalist working for Radio Free Europe in its Moscow bureau has been kicked out of Russia, Buzzfeed reported Monday afternoon. Veteran journalist David Satter told Buzzfeed’s reporters Monday that the powers that be had deemed his presence in their country undesirable and denied his re-entry into Russia in late December. Satter […]
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NBC News reports that Russia has put security forces on combat alert in the southern Stavropol region after the discovery of five bodies with gunshot wounds and an explosive device, a regional security spokesman said. Russia has already tightened security before next month’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, on which President Vladimir Putin has staked a […]
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According to the Chicago Tribune, a bomb ripped apart a bus in Volgograd on Monday, killing 14 people in the second deadly attack blamed on suicide bombers in the southern Russian city in 24 hours and raising fears of Islamist attacks on the Winter Olympics. President Vladimir Putin, who has staked his prestige on February’s […]
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Ukrainian police fired tear gas Monday at pro-European demonstrators staging a second day of protests outside the government seat in Kiev over a decision to scrap a key pact with the EU. Scuffles broke out outside the government headquarters shortly before the European Union announced that the offer of a broad political and economic deal […]
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According to NBC News, at least fifty people were killed when a passenger plane crashed in central Russia on Sunday night, officials said. The Boeing 737 from Moscow exploded after a failed attempt to land at the Kazan international airport, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Republic of Tartarstan. Cell phone video […]
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According to ria.ru, police in Moscow have detained a suspected recruiter with the Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Interior Ministry said Thursday. Officials said the 25-year old man was from the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan and had previously been deported, but that he had obtained forged documents and returned to Russia. The ministry said […]
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The Washington Post reports that the organizers of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi have introduced some of the most extensive identity checks and sweeping security measures ever seen at an international sports event, raising concerns that they are stifling dissent and violating privacy under the pretext of fulfilling their pledge to make the games […]
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