Police detained a man who stabbed eight people in northeast Moscow on Friday afternoon, a police spokesman said. “The number of victims has increased to eight. All of them have been taken to hospitals in Moscow,” the spokesman said. In addition to the stabbing victims, one five-year-old boy received medical treatment for shock after witnessing [...]
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December 11, 2011
October 28, 2011
Only survivor of Russia ice hockey plane crash released from hospital
The only survivor of the plane crash that killed virtually the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team was released from hospital on Friday, hospital staff said. Crew member Alexander Sizov spent more than 7 weeks in a Moscow hospital after last month’s tragedy. Lokomotiv’s chartered Yak-42 crashed just after takeoff on September 7 as the [...]
October 22, 2011
October 20, 2011
Russian Opposition Activist Released After Hunger Strike
MOSCOW — A Russian opposition activist who went on hunger strike after being sentenced to 10 days’ administrative detention was released early on October 20 after his health deteriorated, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Sergei Udaltsov, a coordinator for the opposition movement Left Front, was sentenced on October 13 after being found guilty of resisting police. [...]
October 6, 2011
Russia to continue policy of full support for Abkhazia – Medvedev
Russia intends to continue its policy of full support for Abkhazia, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. “Russia will continue to give full support to the fraternal people of Abkhazia,” Medvedev said during talks with his Abkhaz counterpart Alexander Ankvab. Medvedev noted that they discussed economic cooperation issues during the talks. “It is important [...]
October 5, 2011
New Abkhazian President makes first official visit to Moscow
Abkhazian President Alexander Ankvab began his first visit to Moscow as elected president on Wednesday. Ankvab will hold talks Thursday with President Dmitry Medvedev on issues including Russian aid to Sukhumi, and property rights for Russian residents in the Caucasian republic, according to a Kremlin source. Ankvab took office on September 26 after winning the [...]
September 13, 2011
Lokomotiv must be revived – Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev says the Russian state will do everything to help Lokomotiv Yaroslavl return to high-level hockey after their main squad was lost in a fatal plane crash last week. The Russian president has held a meeting with the Lokomotiv administration and officials from the KHL (Kontinental Hockey League) to discuss the future of what [...]
September 12, 2011
Hockey player crash survivor dies
Russia‘s Lokomotiv hockey player, Alexander Galimov, who was severely injured in a plane crash on September 7, died on Monday in a Moscow hospital, RIA Novosti quoted the Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery as saying in a statement. “On September 12, in the morning, despite continuing therapy using all possible contemporary treatments, Alexander Galimov died from [...]