Putin offers help with Boston bombings investigationRussian President Vladimir Putin offered Russia's assistance on Tuesday in the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three on Monday and left more than 140 injured.15:06 16.04.2013
At least three dead, dozens injured as blasts hit Boston MarathonAt least three people were killed Monday and more than 100 others injured, some critically, after a pair of powerful explosions ripped through a crowd near the finish line while the prestigious Boston Marathon was still in progress, local authorities and media in Boston reported.09:43 16.04.2013
FSB chief slams ‘insufficient’ counterterror effortRussia’s state security chief on Tuesday criticized regional efforts to fight terrorism as “insufficient and often perfunctory.”13:34 09.04.2013
Complaint against inaction in the Dubrovka Theater attack case rejectedThe Moscow City Court has upheld a lower court ruling on the legitimacy of the investigation authorities' refusal to open a case against the officials who managed the storming of the Dubrovka Theater in 2002.13:30 03.04.2013
Prime minister of Ingushetia accused of supporting terroristsState Duma Deputy representing Chechnya Shamsail Saraliyev has asked Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika to look into allegations that Musa Chiliyev, the prime minister of Ingushetia, is financing local militants.11:51 02.04.2013
Supreme court upholds sentence over aborted high-speed train attack caseThe Supreme Court has upheld the lower court sentence handed down to the four men convicted of plotting to bomb a high-speed train.15:01 27.03.2013
Siberian FSB detained girl for fund raising over $32 k for terroristsA girl who called for staging terrorist attacks and collected over 1 million rubles ($32,510) to help convicted terrorists has been detained by the Federal Security Service (FSB) department for the Krasnoyarsk Territory and arrested by a court decision.12:33 26.03.2013
Russian accused of involvement in terrorism on social network files suitElina Karpova, a resident of Russian city Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea, has filed a 90,000 ruble ($2,910) defamation suit with Kalinigrad's Moskovsky District Court against her acquaintances who posted her photographs on the VKontakte social network with comments which accused her of involvement in terrorism.13:52 25.03.2013
Imam suspected of sending believers' donations to terroristsThe investigative agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria, a republic in the North Caucasus, Russia, have opened a criminal case against an imam of a rural area who allegedly financed terrorism with believers' donations, a regional investigative authority said.12:12 21.03.2013
Complaint in terror investigation stalling to be heard on April 3On April 3 the Moscow City Court will hear an appeal against the Lefortovo District Court ruling that exonerated the investigating officer who refused to initiate a criminal case against the officials in charge of the hostage release operation at the Dubrovka Theater in 2002.13:03 19.03.2013
Argentina and Iran to investigate AMIA bombingThe Argentinean parliament has ratified the memorandum of understanding signed with Iran on January 27 to undertake a joint investigation into the Jewish community center explosion in Buenos Aires in 1994.12:49 28.02.2013
Complaint about ineffectiveness of Dubrovka terror investigation dismissedThe Lefortovsky District Court in Moscow has dismissed the complaint filed against the investigating officer who refused to initiate a criminal case against the officials in charge of the hostage release operation at the Dubrovka Theater in 2002.10:39 28.02.2013
Lawyer accuses investigators in Domodedovo terrorist attack of ineptitudeLawyer Igor Trunov, who represents victims of the terrorist attack in Moscow's Domodedovo Airport in January 2011, has filed a request with the Investigative Committee to open a case against the officials who failed to find who was responsible for the violations of the airport's security procedures that led to the tragedy.14:46 27.02.2013
Russian Supreme Court to consider 2009 train bombing case on Feb. 25On February 25 the Russian Supreme Court will consider an appeal launched by those convicted of having carried out the 2009 bombing of a high-speed train, challenging the validity of evidence used to render the verdict against them.13:27 22.02.2013
Lebanon's Military Court demands death penalty for former information ministerThe Lebanese Military Court's investigation judge has demanded the death penalty for former Information and Tourism Minister Michel Samaha for planning terrorist attacks in the country.17:40 20.02.2013
Moscow court requests translation of ECHR ruling in Dubrovka terror claimThe Lefortovsky District Court in Moscow decided to ask the Justice Ministry on Monday to provide them with a Russian translation of the European Court of Human Rights' (ECHR) decision in the claim regarding the Nord-Ost hostage crisis.16:48 18.02.2013
Complaint over inaction in the Dubrovka terror case investigation to be reviewedThe Moscow City Court has returned for review the lower court's ruling that the dismissal of the complaint over the negligence of the authorities during the Dubrovka Theater Center hostage crisis in 2002 was illegitimate.13:26 04.02.2013
High-security prison for extremists to open in SiberiaA high-security prison for extremists will open in Yeniseisk in the Krasnoyarsk Territory next spring, says Vladimir Shayeshnikov, the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service's regional department.16:07 29.01.2013
Supreme Court upholds sentence of attempted Red Square bomberThe Supreme Court's Judicial Panel for Criminal Affairs has upheld the prison sentence of Ilyas Saidov on Wednesday, who was convicted of planning an explosion on Moscow's Red Square.16:33 23.01.2013
Pakistani judge passes 48 death sentences on terroristAn anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Thursday handed down 48 death sentences to the extremist found guilty of organizing a terrorist attack in Faisalabad in 2011 which claimed 48 lives, the Indian media report.10:55 18.01.2013