Moscow - Murder charges were filed Wednesday against two suspects in connection with a series of bomb attacks in the city of Sochi, the venue of the 2014 Winter Olympics. The two men, who have already made admissions, were charged in the deaths of 5 persons and in injuring 19 others with home-made explosive devices, investigators said, the Itar-Tass agency reported.
Investigators said the two, a camera man and a member of the militia, gave an inferiority complex as their motive behind the series of blasts which took place on a beach, in a park, and in a number of interior apartment building courtyards.
Moscow - Russian President Dmitri Medvedev fired Moscow police chief Vladimir Pronin Tuesday, after one of his officers killed three people and wounded six in a shooting spree. Medvedev earlier Tuesday suspended several senior officers in the precinct where the shootings occurred, saying the local police should take full responsibility, Medvedev spokeswoman Natalia Timakova said.
Moscow - The letter "f" looks like an upright line with two ears, "h" stands for "n" and "p" for a rolled "r". Visitors to Moscow have to get to grips with the basics of the Cyrillic alphabet, if they want to make the most of their stay.
Moscow A Russian policeman killed at least three people and injured six in a shooting spree in southern Moscow on Sunday night, Russian news agencies reported. The head of police in the Zarizyno district killed his driver and then started firing indiscriminately in the street and in a supermarket, investigators told journalists. A cashier and a customer were killed and four of the wounded were in a critical condition.
Moscow - Anatoly Pakhomov, the Kremlin-backed candidate, won a landslide victory in the race for the mayor's post in Sochi, host city of the Olympic Winter Games 2014, news reports said Monday.
