Jailing of protester underlines harsh Russia crackdown - Navalny
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prominent Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny said on Saturday the jail sentence handed to a protester against President Vladimir Putin highlighted the government's harsh...
View ArticleRussia's Putin fires defence minister over corruption scandal
Russia's President Vladimir Putin sacked the country's defence minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, on Tuesday after he was implicated in a criminal probe into the sell-off of military assets. By News Wires...
View ArticleTajikistan moves to snuff out classroom dissent ahead of vote
Madina, a university student in the Central Asian former Soviet republic of Tajikistan, was attending a journalism seminar this summer when a classmate asked the lecturer a question. "If I were to...
View ArticleTajik mother says security services beat young son
A woman in the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan says security services held her 12-year-old son for three days and beat him to coerce details on individuals detained on extremism charges. Inobat...
View ArticleRussia’s ultra-nationalists hijack People’s Unity Day
Thousands of Russian ultra-nationalists staged march in Moscow on Sunday to protest the inflow of non-Russian migrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia. At least 10,000 young people, many dressed in...
View ArticleSix Suspected Terror Group Members Detained in Moscow
MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow police have detained six suspected members of the Islamic Revival Party for allegedly...
View ArticlePIPES: The imaginary ‘moderate’ Islamist
A September attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tunis left four dead, 49 injured, several buildings looted and burned out and the black Salafi flag flying above the embassy grounds. In response, the ruling...
View ArticleBomb kills three, wounds five in Russia's North Caucasus
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - An improvised bomb killed two policemen and one civilian in Russia's volatile North Caucasus on Wednesday and wounded five others, police said. The bomb went off in...
View ArticleRussian police detain six alleged terrorists
Russian police detained six members of a banned Islamic group who were distributing extremist literature in mosques in Moscow and seized an arsenal of weapons including grenades...
View ArticleRussia smashes baby trafficking ring
Moscow - Russian investigators have cracked a ring of human traffickers that specialised in selling babies in the country's volatile North Caucasus region, Moscow's Investigative Committee said on...
View ArticleRussia breaks baby trafficking ring in North Caucasus
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigators have cracked a ring of human traffickers that specialized in selling babies in the country's volatile North Caucasus region, Moscow's Investigative Committee...
View ArticleEgypt detains 12 militants, including Tunisian, Libyan
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has detained 12 Islamist militants including a Tunisian and a Libyan suspected of having links to al Qaeda and planning attacks inside the country and abroad, the Interior...
View Article‘Evidence’ of Terror Group in Moscow - FSB
MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia’s Federal Security Service has identified members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is...
View ArticleRussian Press - Behind the Headlines, October 31
Izvestia United Russia Member Demands Satisfaction from Polish Media Are Polish politicians using the plane crash near Smolensk that killed Polish President Lech Kaczyński to push an agenda? Frants...
View ArticleRussian police detain members of banned Islamic group
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have arrested six members of a banned Islamic group on suspicion of recruiting followers in Moscow mosques and possessing weapons, the Interior Ministry said on...
View ArticleRussia detains Hizb ut-Tahrir members in Moscow
MOSCOW - Russian police detained six members of a banned Islamist organisation for spreading extremist literature and recruiting followers in the capital Moscow, officials said Monday. Six leaders and...
View ArticleRussia charges nine with membership of banned Islamist group
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday nine suspected militants were charged with belonging to outlawed Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir, which police said had planned bomb attacks on civilian...
View Article>Russia charges 9 Islamic radicals with terrorism
MOSCOW (AP) — Nine men were charged Friday with organizing cells of a banned Islamist group and illegal possession of guns, explosives and fake U.S. dollars and...
View ArticleRussia charges 9 Islamic radicals with terrorism, amassing weapons, explosives
MOSCOW - Nine men were charged Friday with organizing cells of a banned Islamist group and illegal possession of guns, explosives and fake U.S. dollars and euros, Russian police said Five of...
View ArticleRussia charges 9 Islamic radicals with terrorism
Moscow: Russian police say nine men have been charged with organising cells of a banned Islamist group. The Interior Ministry said today that the men are nationals of Russia and...
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