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The victim, Maksharip Aushev, has been connected to the local opposition Internet site, Ingushetia.org. Aushev was at the wheel of his car, driving on the highway to the city of Nalchik, when the occupants of another car opened fire.
Tags: Russian, Southern Russia, Ingushetia, Maksharip Aushev, opposition activists, opposition figure, North Caucasus, activists killing, shot dead, prominent opposition
Many others were injured in the suspected suicide bombing in Nazran, the main city in the Russian republic of Ingushetia. It is reported to have occurred as staff gathered in a courtyard. Ingushetia, which borders Chechnya, has recently been rocked by...
Tags: Russian, Southern Russia, Ingushetia, Nazran, suicide bomber, police station, Dmitry Medvedev, suicide attack, medvedev fired, Siberia
At least 20 people have been killed in a crash between a bus and a petrol tanker in south Russia, officials say. The accident happened on a highway near Samarskoye, south of Rostov-on-Don. Rescue workers are still at the crash site and officials say the...
Tags: Russian Rostov, Southern Russia, South Russia, Rostov-on-Don, russia bus, death toll, petrol tanker, crash leaves, fuel tanker, rostov region
The news will be a disappointment to the Kremlin, which had been assuming that the US was ready to make a cut in nuclear weapons kept in storage as well. RT’s Alyona Minkovski says the reason behind the latest information may partially be the panic in...
Tags: nuclear warheads, delivery vehicles, Russian, Southern Russia, U.S, nuclear weapons, United States, Washington
Georgian membership on the back-burner, "that doesn't mean they will be abandoning the Georgians to Russia's sphere of influence or that Russia's going to be able to dictate what the Georgians can and can't do," said Jeffrey Mankoff of the U.S.-based...
Tags: Southern Russia, Georgians
Emergency officials say fire ripped through an apartment building in southern Russia killing 15 people. Officials say the fire destroyed about two-thirds of the three-story building before it could be put out...Investigators said they were looking into...
Tags: Russian, Molodezhny, Astrakhan Region, southern russia, residential building, apartment building, wooden residential, fire killing
An explosion ripped though a Russian government building in Ingushetia province today, leaving at least 18 people injured, officials said. An initial investigation suggested a gas leak was to blame, but other possible causes were also being considered,...
Tags: Russian, Mainly Muslim Ingushetia, South Russia, Marat Prokopenkov, initial investigation, ingushetia province, investigation suggested, southern russia, government building, gas blast
The mayor of the capital of Russia's North Ossetia region was killed Wednesday when his car came under gunfire, officials said. Vitaly Karayev, the mayor of Vladikavkaz, was seriously hurt when his car was fired upon Wednesday morning, and he later died...
Tags: south ossetia, georgia, attack, Vladikavkaz Vitaly Karayev, Vladikavkaz Mayor Vitaly Karayev, Russian, Southern Russia, Georgians, Georgian Army, North Ossetian
According to Chairman of the National Anti-terrorist Committee, Alexander Bortnikov, this year has seen 69 terror attacks prevented in Russia, 36 of which were aimed at densely populated areas. In the course of anti-terrorist operations more than 170...
Tags: Russian, Southern Russia, Alexander Bortnikov, terror attack, terror plots, Sochi
Russia detains 'Georgian spy' France 24 Friday, May 16, 2008 Russia detains 'Georgian spy' Friday 16 May 2008 Russia on Friday claimed to have captured a Georgian spy allegedly working to destabilise southern Russia...Friday 16 May 2008 Russia said Friday...
Tags: Russia-Georgia, Georgian, Abkhazia, southern russia, accusation georgia, North Caucasus, Interfax, FSB, security services, Moscow