(SOCHI, Russia) — The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin’s slope, Gazprom’s gondola lift and Sberbank’s ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of construction workers leave no doubt about who is paying for the 2014 Winter Games: Russia’s business powerhouses.
Other countries that have hosted the Olympics have …
(MOSCOW) — Part of an airliner carrying more than 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting down an evacuation slide.
The Emergencies Ministry says none of the passengers and crew members were injured by the fire on the landing gear of the …
In the past two weeks, the U.S. and its allies have done just about everything short of getting down on their collective knees and begging Russia to stop delivering weapons to the Syrian government. President Vladimir Putin has …
(MOSCOW) — A Russian security services operative — his features bathed in shadows — went on state television Wednesday to claim that the U.S. diplomat who was ordered out of the country was the second American expelled this …
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador to Russia on Wednesday to submit a formal protest over Moscow’s claim that it caught a U.S. diplomat disguised in a blond wig trying to recruit a …
(MOSCOW) — A U.S. diplomat was ordered Tuesday to leave the country after the Kremlin’s security services said he tried to recruit a Russian agent, and they displayed tradecraft tools that seemed straight from a cheap spy …
(MOSCOW) — A U.S. diplomat disguised in a blond wig was caught red-handed as he tried to recruit a Russian counterintelligence officer in Moscow, Russia’s security services announced Tuesday, claiming the American was a CIA officer.
Last year, when Tamerlan Tsarnaev visited the Russian region of Dagestan, he had a guide with a deep knowledge of the local Islamist community: a distant cousin named Magomed Kartashov
(MOSCOW) — About 20,000 protesters thronged Bolotnaya Square across from the Kremlin on Monday, a year after a protest at the same spot turned violent on the eve of President Vladimir Putin‘s inauguration.
Monday’s turnout …
Cornered by police at his family home, Islamist fighter Mahmud Mansur Nidal went out in a blaze of gunfire last May. Before he met his end did he meet suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev?
The incongruous tombstone of a Canadian mujahid stands on a lush hill at the edge of Utamysh, a village in southern Russia’s Dagestan region, within reach of the salty breeze that comes off the Caspian Sea. The riddles of the …
(WASHINGTON) — Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.
In another conversation, the mother of now-dead bombing suspect …
The old imam cringes at the sound of that name — Tamerlan Tsarnaev — furrowing his brow into a bed of creases as he sighs and looks away. There is about half an hour left until the next call to Friday prayers, and he is
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