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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.
Western leaders say Russian President Vladimir Putin's election win was neither free nor fair as the Kremlin leader claimed victory in the March 15-17 presidential vote. Russia's opposition has been all but silenced following the death of Kremlin foe Aleksei Navalny in an Arctic prison in February.
Vladimir Putin has claimed a fifth presidential term with a landslide victory in a tightly controlled election that has been condemned by the West as neither free nor fair as the Russian leader seeks to prove overwhelming popular support for his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Thousands of Russians appeared to join an opposition call for protests by gathering at polling stations at midday local time, amid a presidential election engineered to deliver Vladimir Putin six more years in the Kremlin. Long lines of people formed in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and elsewhere.
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