President Dmitry Medvedev vows to destroy "the nests of the bandits" who perpetrated the devastating attack on Moscow's premier airport.
Russians have reacted with shock and grief to the tragic terrorist bombing of Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on January 24. Here we present translations of some of the comments left on the website of RFE/RL’s Russian Service and other popular Russian-language websites.
The Chechen mufti's press service said in a statement this week that "any potential bride or groom is obliged to receive a medical certificate."
A man wounded in an attack on Chechen members of the Russian military unit has belatedly been identified as a Chechen policeman wanted in Austria in connection with the murder in Vienna two years ago of Umar Israilov, a former member of Chechen leader's bodyguard.
Over the past week, the Azerbaijani authorities have detained or formally arrested up to 30 prominent Muslim activists after the head of the unregistered pro-Iranian Islamic Party of Azerbaijan called for the overthrow of the country's "despotic regime."
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, not generally know for his rationality, has recently displayed increasingly erratic behavior, reportedly shipping 100 dump trucks of snow to Grozny for children to play in on New Year's Eve.
In a five-minute video clip posted late on January 8 on Islamdin, the website of the Kabardino-Balkaria-Karachai wing of the North Caucasus insurgency, Emir Zakaria affirms that it was his fighters who killed respected Kabardian ethnographer Aslan Tsipinov late last month.
The Daghestan wing of the North Caucasus Islamic insurgency's rejection of calls by President Magomedsalam Magomedov to lay down its arms calls into question the relevance of the government commission recently created to "help" repentant fighters readapt to civilian life and of the appeal to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev adopted last month at a Congress of Peoples of Daghestan to declare an amnesty for fighters who surrender.
The authorities say four suspected militants were killed in a raid in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan.
The president of the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria has blamed the local wing of the North Caucasus insurgency for the killing of a Circassian scholar.
After an unsuccessful search far and wide for a suitably ostentatious tree, Grozny's planners decided to fasten together smaller trees together to produce a massive centerpiece that lacked only a dusting of snow during unseasonably warm temperatures in the area.
A Dubai court has slashed the prison terms for two men convicted in the 2009 slaying of a former Chechen warlord from life to just three years in a surprise ruling.
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