Photo: Reuters/ Baz Ratner (Reuters) – Russia and China expressed alarm on Monday over the regional repercussions of two Israeli air raids on Syria, while Israel played down strikes which its officials said targeted Iranian missiles bound for Lebanese...
Tamerlan Tsarnaev established links with al Qaeda’s Caucasian networks for terrorist attacks in America, starting with the Boston bombings. In 2011, Russian intelligence notified the FBI that he was on their watch list.
The deadly bombing of Boston Marathon confirms Russia’s position that terrorists are a common threat to all nations and must never be supported for political gains, says Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin was commenting...
(AFP Photo / Alexander Nemenov) Chechen groups have been held responsible for a number of major terrorist attacks, with militants from Chechnya and neighboring provinces targeting Russian residents since the conflict in the North...
Photo: FBI / AP One of the brothers from Chechnya suspected of bombing the Boston marathon once declared he “didn’t understand” Americans and had no American friends, despite living there for up to ten...
(AFP Photo / Patrick Baz) One hundred and thirty-two companies reportedly had inside knowledge of Cyprus’ impending levy tax as they withdrew deposits worth US$916 million in the run-up to the bailout deal. The...
The Russian government says it will not compensate Russian savers who have lost money in the Cyprus banking crisis. Russians are believed to have billions of euros in Cypriot accounts and deposits above 100,000...
Photo: Alexander Joe/ AFP/ Getty Images Leaders of the five BRICS nations plan to create a development bank in a direct challenge to the World Bank that they accuse of Western bias. The bank would use...
Photo: Wikipedia Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has denounced laws passed in Russia as an “attack on the rights of citizens”. In an interview with the BBC he called on President Vladimir Putin “not...
(AFP Photo / RIA Novosti / Alexey Nikolsky) President Putin said Russia’s enemies were making consistent attempts to shift the strategic balance of power and urged top military officers to continue the reforms and...
