(RFE/RL) August 26, 2006 -- Heavily armed police surrounded a house in the southern Russian republic of Daghestan today and exchanged gunfire with suspected militants holed up inside, killing four and wounding a woman who was with the gunmen.
Firefighters try to contain the damage to the cupola of the Trinity Cathedral (epa) August 25, 2006 -- A fire has caused extensive damage to St. Petersburg's 19th-century Trinity Cathedral.
Nikolai Patrushev, director of the Federal Security Service (file photo) (ITAR-TASS) Russia; August 25, 2006 -- The head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says militants are becoming more active in southern Russian republics neighboring Chechnya.
A 26-year-old journalist abducted on August 17 in Grozny was secretly -- and perhaps involuntarily -- married to radical Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev.
Nationalist youth groups have emerged as a factor in the bombing of a Moscow market this week, as well as the killing of a Peruvian student last year.
Russian terrorism investigators are worried by the growing number of ethnic Slavs among the perpetrators of terrorist acts.
Scene from a rally against hate crimes organized by Orthodox believers this August (ITAR-TASS) August 25, 2006 -- A Russian court has sentenced 12 people for the murder last year of a Peruvian student in the southern city of Voronezh.
August 25, 2006 -- Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has dismissed as "complete nonsense" Israeli claims that Hizballah has Russian-made antitank missiles.
The aftermath of the blast at the Cherkizov market (TV screen shot) August 25, 2006 -- The death toll from the August 21 bombing of a Moscow market has risen to 11 following the death of one those hospitalized after the blast.
A service for crash victims near the crash site on August 24 (epa) August 25, 2006 -- Relatives of those killed in a Russian plane crash have begun the grim process of identifying the victims.
August 25, 2006 -- Russia today rejected calls for Iran to be hit with UN sanctions over its nuclear program.
Ramzan Kadyrov and his militia have been repeatedly accused of abduction, extortion, and other human rights abuses (ITAR-TASS) PRAGUE, August 24, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Russian and international rights groups are voicing concern over the fate of a reporter who was abducted in Chechnya last week.
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