Twin suicide car bombs killed at least 13 people and wounded just over 100 more in the Dagestani capital Makhachkala late Thursday, in what police are calling a terrorist attack. Twin suicide car bombs killed at least 13 people and wounded just over 100 more in the...

A woman convicted of planning to carry out a suicide bomb attack during 2010 New Year's Eve celebrations on Red Square has been sentenced to 10 years in jail, investigators said Friday. The plot was foiled after another suicide bomber was killed by explosives that accidentally detonated in her hotel room...

Ten people have been convicted and sentenced to jail for their roles in the 2009 Nevsky Express train bombing that killed 28 passengers. Ten people have been convicted and sentenced to jail for their roles in the 2009 Nevsky Express train bombing that killed 28 passengers, Interfax reported Tuesday. Following a closed-door trial, a Tver region court...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has promised a swift investigation into last week's bomb blasts in the city of Dnipropetrovsk, which injured 30 people just weeks ahead of the European football championship that Ukraine co-hosts. DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has promised a swift...

A religiously themed art exhibition organized in Krasnodar by a prominent patron of the arts has sparked a flurry of protest from activists and even a fake bomb threat, despite being supported by a senior Russian Orthodox Church official. A religiously themed art exhibition organized in Krasnodar by a prominent patron of the arts has sparked a flurry of protest from activists and even a fake bomb...

... February 2011. But they still have by far the most nuclear arms — a fact stressed by the Chinese representative on Monday, the opening day of a two-week conference to discuss the Non-Proliferation Treaty, a 1970 pact to prevent the spread of atomic bombs. China, Britain and France are the other three recognized nuclear weapons states. But the size of their arsenals are in the low hundreds, well below those of the United States and Russia, which have thousands of nuclear warheads. Ambassador Cheng...

The U.S. prisons authority has ordered the transfer of convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout from his Brooklyn jail to a super-maximum security prison in Colorado. Ramzi Yousef, convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in 1993, is also held there, RIA-Novosti said Friday. (MT)

Retired P&G chief John Pepper ducked under his desk in elementary school, practicing a precaution in case of a Russian bomb strike. Retired P&G chief John Pepper ducked under his desk in elementary school, practicing a precaution in case of a Russian bomb strike. The Russian threat closed in on him again during the Cuban missile crisis when he was serving on a U.S....

... there have been previous explosions connected to criminal extortion. The first of four explosions Friday in Dnipropetrovsk rocked a tram stop shortly before noon, injuring 13 people, said Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Yulia Yershova. The bomb was planted in a garbage bin. The second bomb, also planted in a garbage bin, went off about 40 minutes later near a movie theater and a trade school, injuring two adults and nine teenagers. A third blast in the city center wounded three people and...

... the treatment meted out by President Viktor Yanukovych's leadership. Amid talk of a possible boycott of the June 8 ceremonial opening by European politicians, Ukraine has accused European powers of resorting to Cold War tactics. A series of mystery bomb blasts in the city of Dnipropetrovsk last week, which injured 30 people, have raised security concerns. The government says they were organized by forces out to destabilize the nation. Identikits of suspects have been issued, but there have been...

... are among Israel's staunchest enemies and are under increasing international pressure — Syria for a violent crackdown on the opposition and Iran for a nuclear program that Israel, the United States and other countries fear is designed to build a bomb. When Putin last visited Israel in April 2005, he defended Russian arms sales to Syria and the shipment of nuclear components to Iran, saying they posed no threat to Israel's security. Putin, whose 2005 trip to Israel was the first by a Kremlin leader...

... deliveries to sue Vnukovo Airport. "It's too early to say much else. We hope they are objective in their investigation," she said. The airport was last investigated for alleged failure to ensure security at the airport following the suicide bombing in January 2011 that killed 35 people. Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Boeing planned to build up to 82 planes this year; in fact, that is only the number of planes of new model types the company plans to...

... Palace after clearing the security at the Kutafya Tower. "How was it?" The other man replied, "It was carnage." The topic was on the tip of the tongue of another suited pair of guests that followed closely. "They used gasoline bombs," said the guest. "There was just one," the other disagreed. Police detained more than 400 protesters Sunday at the rally of tens of thousands that became violent at its close. It was one of the demonstrations that stemmed from what...

... International Chess Federation and alien-spotter Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. The former leader of the Kalmykia republic famously dropped by Saddam Hussein's Baghdad on the eve of the U.S. invasion in 2003, and played a game of chess with Moammar Gadhafi as NATO bombs rained down on war-ravaged Libya last year. Both of the authoritarian Arab rulers were subsequently killed. Ilyumzhinov spent three hours in talks with Assad in late April after flying in from an event in Chicago where he rubbed shoulders with...

... to the fact that Nashi often acts on orders from the Kremlin. Zhukovsky resident and former aviation industry engineer Sergei Dombrovsky believes that the rest of the forest can still be saved. “We have a good perspective. All we need is to bomb them with the facts,” he said. 179695 179742

.... That has forced Syria to rely for transportation and heating fuel on a narrowing pool of allies, including Iran, which faces its own tightening sanctions because of a nuclear program it says is peaceful, but the West says aims to produce an atomic bomb. BLACKLIST The latest delivery of Russian fuel reached Banias in Syria from the port of Novorossiisk early this month, aboard the Liberia-flagged tanker Cape Benat. Mahmoud El May, who heads East Mediterranean trading at Monaco-based Galaxy Energy...

... academic exchanges at the U.S. Embassy, spoke first. "When I was growing up, we had drills in school where we had to get under our desks and put on gas masks," she said. "We were afraid that at any moment, the Soviet Union was going to bomb us." The parents exchange knowing smiles. "We did!" one said, eliciting chuckles. "Now we have a whole generation that are too young to remember those horrible, old days," Ehrlich said. "Nevertheless, there's no substitute...

... family suffered in one way or another. Some lost loved ones on the battlefields, while others suffered from lack of medical care and other basic goods, starvation and other maladies. Almost all my older students tell stories of the terror they felt when bombs were raining down on their homes and schools. The stories of starvation are the most tragic. A young Russian friend recalled how her grandfather used to beg her to eat more when she was an adolescent. He would even get on his knees and plead with...

... Ploshchad. The riot police started picking off people from the crowd, often using force and dragging them behind a wall of policemen. A few demonstrators started throwing chunks of asphalt, poles from their posters, glass and plastic bottles, smoke bombs and even umbrellas at the police. Police officers initially responded by throwing the objects back at the protesters. Dozens of people on both sides received medical aid. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov later said on Dozhd television that the police...