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Russia arrests another suspect in concert hall attack that killed 143

Mar. 28, 2024 12:14 PM EDT

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's top investigative body said Thursday that another suspect has been detained as an accomplice in the attack by gunmen on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 143 people. A statement from the Investigative Committee said the latest person detained was...

The death toll in the Moscow concert hall attack rises to 143, while 80 others remain hospitalized

Mar. 27, 2024 15:31 PM EDT

MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll from last week's Moscow concert hall attack rose to 143, Russian authorities said Wednesday. Around 80 other people wounded in the siege by gunmen remain hospitalized. The Friday night massacre in Crocus City Hall, a sprawling shopping and entertainment...

Russia extends arrest of US reporter Evan Gershkovich. He has already spent nearly a year in jail

Mar. 26, 2024 05:36 AM EDT

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to remain in jail on espionage charges until at least late June, court officials said. The 32-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested in late March 2023 while on a reporting trip and has spent...

Moscow court orders U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested nearly a year ago, to remain in jail until at least June 30

Mar. 26, 2024 05:11 AM EDT
MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow court orders U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested nearly a year ago, to remain in jail until at least June 30.

‘Duty to warn’ guided US advance warning of the Moscow attack. Adversaries don’t always listen

Mar. 26, 2024 00:17 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. warning to Russia couldn't have been plainer: Two weeks before the deadliest attack in Russia in years, Americans had publicly and privately advised President Vladimir Putin's government that “extremists” had “imminent plans” for just such slaughter. ...

Putin says Islamic extremists raided concert hall but attack masterminds are yet to be found

Mar. 25, 2024 17:30 PM EDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the gunmen who killed 139 people at a suburban Moscow concert hall are “radical Islamists,” but he repeated his accusation that Ukraine could have played a role despite Kyiv's strong denials. Two days after the Islamic State's...

Russian massacre suspects' homeland is plagued by poverty and religious strife

Mar. 25, 2024 17:10 PM EDT

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by authorities as citizens of Tajikistan, some of the thousands who migrate to Russia each year from the poorest of the former Soviet republics to scrape out marginal existences. ...

Moscow theater shooting fans flames of a disinformation war

Mar. 25, 2024 17:07 PM EDT

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Flames were still leaping from the Moscow concert hall besieged by gunmen when Russian officials began suggesting who was really to blame. They presented no evidence, only aspersions and suspicion and counterfactual speculation, but in Russia’s eyes the culprit was...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the perpetrators of the Moscow concert hall attack are “radical Islamists.”

Mar. 25, 2024 14:22 PM EDT
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says the perpetrators of the Moscow concert hall attack are “radical Islamists.”

4 men charged in Moscow attack, showing signs of beatings at hearing as court says 2 accept guilt

Mar. 25, 2024 03:55 AM EDT

MOSCOW (AP) — Four men accused of staging the Russia concert hall attack that killed more than 130 people appeared before a Moscow court Sunday on terrorism charges showing signs of severe beatings. One appeared to be barely conscious during the hearing. Court statements said two...