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Russia: Security services foiled terrorist attack on Moscow
Russian security services said Monday they had foiled a terror attack on Moscow, killing two of the plotters and arresting another. “Our forceful actions prevented an attempted act of terror in the capital,” the National Anti-Terror Committee said in a statement. The statement said the men, all three of them…
Russian mafia boss shot dead in Moscow
A man believed to be one of Russia’s biggest mafia bosses was shot dead in the centre of Moscow on Wednesday as he was leaving a restaurant after lunch, the interior ministry said. Aslan Usoyan, known by his nickname of “Grandpa Hassan”, was killed by a shot from a sniper’s…
Deadly gas use haunts Moscow theater hostages 10 years later
A decade after Chechen militants seized a Moscow theatre in a hostage crisis which left 130 people dead, victims’ families are still seeking answers about use of a deadly gas by Russian forces to end the siege. A total of 912 people, many of them children, were held hostage in…
Faint hopes as Moscow court hears Pussy Riot appeal
The Moscow city court on Monday hears the appeal of jailed punk rockers Pussy Riot against their two-year prison camp sentence for performing an anti-Kremlin song in a cathedral, with supporters hoping at best for a slight softening of the sentence. The cause of the three women, convicted in August…
Anti-Putin protestors mass in Moscow test of strength
Thousands marched through Moscow on Saturday to protest against the rule of Vladimir Putin in a test of the opposition’s challenge to the Russian president four months after his inauguration. Waving nationalist flags, brandishing placards calling for early elections or wearing T-shirts in support of jailed members punk band Pussy…
Kremlin stokes patriotism ahead of 1812 victory anniversary
MOSCOW: Two hundred years after Russia’s emblematic victory over Napoleon, the Kremlin is holding lavish celebrations aimed at rousing patriotism among modern Russians. Russia, which annually stages military parades to mark the Soviet victory against Nazi Germany, is spending millions of dollars on a bonanza marking an earlier triumph, its…
Artists lead thousands against Putin in Moscow
Dozens of Russian artists with brooms in hand carted their most expressive works across the boulevards of Moscow on Saturday in a show of exasperation at Vladimir Putin’s return to a third Kremlin term. Several thousand Muscovites joined them in a second such intellectual walk in a week. More than 10,000 had supported…
Chess contest becomes Moscow’s daily reality show
The man sits at a table with his head in his hands. He has not moved for several minutes. Opposite is an empty chair. Watching him through a glass panel are hundreds of people scrutinising his every gesture. An angst-ridden surrealist nightmare? An image from a Samuel Beckett play? Or…
Russia threatens pre-emptive attack against U.S. missile shield
MOSCOW — Russia said Thursday its dispute with the United States over missile defence was near a “dead end” and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in Europe to take out elements of the controversial shield. “We have not been able to find mutually-acceptable solutions at this point…
Anti-Putin human chain protest hits Moscow
MOSCOW — Thousands of Russians linked hands around Moscow on Sunday in a protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s expected return to the Kremlin for a third term in elections next weekend. A din of endless honking descended on Moscow’s 16-kilometre (10-mile) Garden Ring Road as drivers expressed support for…
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