Beslan, Russia News

Do you remember what happened in Beslan, Russia, about five years ago? Well, let me refresh your memory.

New fire safety inspections are uncovering a long list of violations, not because standards have been tightened after Perm, but because old rules are finally being applied.

"Do you know how the Abkhaz people got their land?" asked an Abkhaz officer at the military checkpoint on the Georgian-Abkhaz border.

Sergei Bagapsh is leading the so-called presidential elections in Georgia`s occupied region of Abkhazia.

Abkhaz President Elect Sergei Bagapsh has proposed the investment of over 3 billion rubles in social sites in 2010.

Polling stations have opened in Abkhazia for the first presidential election since the republic declared its independence from Georgia last year.

Abkhazia, a tiny newly-independent seaside republic on the northwestern coast of the Black Sea, will be electing its president on Saturday.

Presidential election is being held in Georgia`s occupied region of Abkhazia. Five candidates are running for the de facto president.

A website linked to Chechen separatist fighters said today that it has received a letter from Islamist militants who claim responsibility for the bombing of a Russian express train last week that killed 26 people.

On Friday, as more than 650 people -including a significant number of government officials - were traveling to St.

A FEW years ago an explosion of a packed train a few hundred miles from Moscow would have caused shock and outrage right across Russia.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of Chechnya, recently proposed to Ahmad Zakaev, a leader of the nationalistic and comparatively moderate Chechen opposition, that he return to Chechnya.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov in July proposed to Akhmed Zakayev, a leader of the nationalistic and comparatively moderate Chechen opposition, that he return to Chechnya.

Regardless of whoever committed the bombing of the Nevsky Express, the attack demonstrates a complete loss of control in the country and a collapse of government authority.

RUSSIA'S FSB intelligence service yesterday said a homemade bomb planted by terrorists caused a packed Moscow to St Petersburg train travelling at 125mph to derail on Friday night, killing up to 39 people and injuring more than 100.

Repairing works of the bridge damaged in landslide occurred in Khelvachauri district of Adjara Region continue.

Ruslan, 7, lost his mother and sister when terrorists held a school full of children hostage in Beslan, Russia, in 2004.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky , once his country's richest man, has resided in "gulag lite," as he calls the Russian penal system under Vladimir Putin , for six years.

On October 7 the Parliament of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia called for Presidential elections to be held on December 12.

They say the devil is in the details, but if you listen to leading politicians and conservative journalists and analysts you would think the devil is in NATO.