Russia warned on Friday that a flare-up in tensions between North Korea and the United States could get out of control, urging all sides involved in the standoff to refrain from muscle-flexing.
With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky Friday and exploded with the force of 20 atomic bombs, injuring more than 1,000 people as it blasted out windows and spread panic in a city of 1 million.
A passenger airliner careered off the runway at Russia’s third-busiest airport and partly onto a highway while landing on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing at least four people.
A Russian court is set to hear an appeal filed by three jailed members of the rock band Pussy Riot, who have been sentenced to two years for performing a “punk prayer” against President Vladimir Putin at Moscow’s main cathedral.
Russian police said they detained dozens of anti-gay protesters and gay rights activists during a gay pride rally in central Moscow.
MOSCOW – A folk healer has been shot dead in Russia’s Ingushetia region, part of the North Caucasus where militants seek to root out “un-Islamic” practices and establish an independent state, officials said. The Moscow-based investigators said the bullet-riddled body of Movladi Buzurtanov, 69, was found Saturday near his home in the village of Nesterovskaya. [...]
