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Sappers in Russia's insurgency-plagued Caucasus region defused a car bomb placed near a hotel in a popular ski resort area, police said Sunday.
Two masked gunmen burst into a cafe in Russia's restive Caucasus region Wednesday and shot dead four traffic policemen on their lunch break, officials said.
Russian police say seven hunters and forest rangers have been shot dead in a wooded area in the volatile Caucasus region.
An explosion tore through the center of a southern Russian city on Wednesday, killing five people and wounding at least 20 as locals gathered for a Chechen dance concert, officials said.
The Russian soccer federation hired Dick Advocaat as new coach of the national team on Monday.
An avalanche in Russia's southern Caucasus mountain range has killed five climbers including an instructor, an emergency official said Saturday.
Two rare Siberian tigers were among a group of big cats in a Russian traveling circus that died during a 20-hour truck journey this week, a circus administrator said Thursday.
Government forces have killed more than 20 militants in Chechnya, and a bomb blast at a cemetery in a neighboring province killed three relatives visiting the grave of a police officer slain by insurgents, law enforcement authorities said.
Chechnya was hit Friday by the third suicide bombing in the past week, part of a rising wave of violence in Russia's predominantly Muslim southern republics that appears to have alarmed the Kremlin.
Gunmen ambushed police in Russia's troubled North Caucasus Monday, officials said, killing two of the officers in the latest spate of violence in the southern region. A sniper shot dead a third officer in another incident.
A local corruption reporter in Russia died of head injuries on Monday in what police said Tuesday was a drunken fall. Colleagues, on the other hand, are sure it was a revenge attack for muckraking journalism.
Insurgents and police clashed Thursday in Russia's restive southern republic of Ingushetia, leaving four officers and three attackers dead, a regional Interior Ministry spokesman said.
An obscure Islamic group claimed responsibility Thursday for the assassination of a mayor in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, saying he had sanctioned persecution of Islamic women.
An explosion hit a minibus unloading passengers in the capital of Russia's North Ossetia province Thursday, and officials said 11 people were killed in what they called a terrorist attack.
Rebel attacks in Russia's restive southern region of Chechnya killed one Russian soldier and wounded 10 other servicemen and police, officials said Friday.
One journalist was shot and killed and another was left with a fractured skull after a beating in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, and police and co-workers said Wednesday the two men were likely targeted for their work.
Nikolai Badry, one of the first Russian soldiers to invade the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali last week, said he watched fellow soldiers fall to their deaths when Georgian artillery bombarded his convoy.
A local Interior Ministry official says unidentified assailants have shot and killed three police officers in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region of Chechnya.
A group of militants opened fire on a convoy of security officers in Chechnya on Monday, killing three and injuring five, a local interior ministry official said.
A remote-controlled bomb exploded on a roadside in the capital of troubled Chechnya, leaving five police officers dead, while another officer was fatally shot near the city, regional authorities said Monday.
Two Russian officers were convicted by a military court Thursday of killing three construction workers at checkpoint in Chechnya.
A roadside bomb killed a prison guard and wounded four other people as they drove in a van transporting suspected criminals in the capital of violence-wracked Chechnya, an Interior Ministry official said.
A passenger bus caught fire and exploded in southern Russia Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding 12, emergency and police officials said. Investigators said terrorism was the likely cause.
Rescuers on Monday recovered the bodies of three sailors after a Russian freighter sank near the Black Sea, while officials assessed damage from an oil tanker spill that could be the worst environmental disaster in the region in years.
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