“Two suicide bombers including one impersonating a police officer killed 12 people in southern Russia on Wednesday, two days after deadly suicide bombings blamed on the region’s militants tore through the Moscow subway system. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday’s blasts in the province of Dagestan – which involved one bomber impersonating a police officer [...]
March 31st, 2010 | Posted in Global Risk News | Read More »
“Female suicide bombers detonated explosions that rocked two subway stations in central Moscow during rush hour on Monday morning, killing at least 35 people, officials said. ‘It was a terrorist act carried out by the female suicide bombers,’ said Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, citing Russia’s intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service. ‘They were specifically timed [...]
March 29th, 2010 | Posted in Global Risk News | Read More »
“Attackers have fired grenades at the interior ministry in Russia’s restive republic of Ingushetia. At least one policeman was killed and others were injured in the attack on the building, which also houses the local police headquarters. Several assailants fired around five grenades into the building before fleeing in a car after Monday’s attack in [...]
February 1st, 2010 | Posted in Global Risk News | Read More »
“Police in Russia’s south killed two suspected militants early Thursday in a counterterrorism operation launched in response to a suicide blast that took the lives of six officers. An area on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, has been in lockdown since Wednesday’s suicide car bombing at a police station as authorities hunted [...]
January 7th, 2010 | Posted in Global Risk News | Read More »