Russia’s defense ministry said Tuesday that two soldiers acting as military instructors to government troops in Syria had been killed by terrorists. Russian professional servicemen who were in a unit of Syrian forces as instructors came under a mortar attack from a group of militants, according to the defense ministry. ...
Russia’s security chief on Tuesday said all those detained over the Saint Petersburg metro bombing originate from Central Asia, urging tighter migration controls. The eight people detained in Moscow and Saint Petersburg over the April 3 bombing that killed 13 are “all originally from Central Asia”, the head of the ...