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An ethnic Uzbek living in Russia told Current Time how he and other migrants from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan were detained by Moscow police and interrogated following the attack on an entertainment venue near the Russian capital in which over 140 people were killed.
A 26-year-old Tajik national was detained in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, on a charge of justifying terrorism, the Investigative Committee said on March 28.
Raimbek Matraimov has been described as a living symbol of corruption by Kyrgyz media. A former customs official allegedly at the heart of a smuggling ring worth hundreds of millions of dollars, he has now appeared in court in Bishkek after being detained in Azerbaijan the previous day.
A prominent St. Petersburg developer has been detained by police in connection with two Facebook posts related to the Moscow concert hall terrorist attack that killed at least 139 people.
Russian authorities have charged four Tajik suspects over the deadly mass shooting on March 22 at a Moscow concert hall. News of the arrests appears to have fueled a spike in xenophobic incidents targeting Tajiks and other migrants in Russia, ranging from attacks and arson to sweeping detentions.
Amid the horror of the shooting at the Moscow concert, stories have emerged of three people who saved not only themselves but more than 100 others from the gunmen: a 15-year-old Kyrgyz boy, a 14-year-old Russian, and an Uzbek man who worked as a waiter at the Crocus City Hall.
A Moscow court on March 25 sentenced in absentia self-exiled anti-war activist Anastasia Ageyeva to eight years in prison on a charge of distributing false information about Russia's military.
Senior Russian officials on March 25 continued to call for the strictest punishment, including the death penalty, for all those found to be involved in the terrorist attack on a Moscow region concert hall that left 139 people dead.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman refused to answer a question regarding indications that the four suspects in the deadly terrorist attack on a concert hall outside of Moscow may have been abused during and after their detention.
Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-installed governor of Russia-occupied Crimea, said one person was killed and four were wounded in a "massive" Ukrainian missile attack on the port of Sevastopol on March 24.
Four suspects charged with acts of terrorism in connection with the attack on a concert hall outside Moscow that left 137 people dead have been sent to pretrial detention for two months pending trial, a Moscow court ruled late on March 24.
An eyewitness to the horrific attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue has given an account of what happened during the deadly mass shooting near Moscow.
Rescuers pulled more bodies from the rubble of a Moscow-region concert hall as the toll from a deadly attack on the venue reached 133 and security officials said four suspected gunmen had been detained in connection with Russia’s worst terrorist violence in nearly two decades.
The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility for an attack on a music venue in Moscow that left dozens dead and wounded. Russian authorities said they had launched a criminal probe into the March 22 attack, in which gunmen fired automatic weapons at concertgoers.
The European Union has sanctioned dozens of Russian officials and two correctional colonies over the death last month in prison of opposition politician and outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny.
Russian officials report that at least 40 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when gunmen fired at crowds at the Crocus City Hall music venue in Moscow late on March 22. Social media videos captured scenes of panic as people fled from the gunshots and smoke rose from the concert hall.
Russian authorities said at least 62 people were killed and more than 100 injured after gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, on March 22 in an attack reportedly claimed by the Islamic State militant group.
The websites of Russian independent news outlet SOTA and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Memorial Center for Protection of Human Rights have been blocked by media-monitoring agency Roskomnadzor.
Thousands of Russian children have been evacuated from a border area near Ukraine amid days of attacks, with videos posted by locals showing damage to cars and buildings.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian says the delimitation and demarcation of the border with Azerbaijan, an issue that has been a key hurdle to a peace deal between the two countries after Baku retook control over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh last year, has begun.
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