Week-ending 25 September 2020 Photo: Ryazan Kremlin (Wikipedia) On 22 September 1999 a suspicious device similar to those used in the recent bombings in Moscow was found and defused in…
Week-ending 18 September 2020 Photo: Wikipedia On 13 September 1999 a bomb exploded in the basement of an apartment buidling on Kashirskoe Highway in south Moscow killing 119 people and injuring…
Week-ending 11 September 2020 Photo: Caucasian Knot On Tuesday, 8 September 2020, Caucasian Knot reported that Muscovites commemorated the victims of the terror act in Gurianov Street, where a residential…
Week-ending 4 September 2020 The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or Beslan massacre) started on 1 September 2004, lasted three days, involved the imprisonment of over 1,100 people as…
Photo: Human Rights House On 15 July 2009 human rights defender Natalia Estemirova, a staff member of the Memorial Human Rights Centre's office in Grozny, Chechnya, was abducted and killed. That morning,…
19 January 2009 - Human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were shot dead in Moscow. 27 February 2015 - Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky…